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Chinua Achebe doctors leaving america Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people - mothers, children, babies, civilians - lost their lives as a result of the blatantly callous and unnecessary policies enacted by the leaders of the federal government of Nigeria. It's this charge that's dominated the book's Nigerian press, so far as I can see, the accusation, on the one hand, that Awolowo hatched "a diabolical policy to reduce the numbers of his enemies significantly through starvation - eliminating over two million people, mainly members of future generations. Chinua Achebe mother baby children When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk Chinua Achebe moon inspirational life The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. 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