Samuel on Nostr: ‘War reorientates a person. It humbles desires and ambitions. They become small. ...
‘War reorientates a person. It humbles desires and ambitions. They become small. You become small. You no longer have dreams to be a doctor, to marry, to travel. There is only the need to survive. War is the shrinking of desires in the shadow of self-preservation.’Chigozie Obioma on the aftermath of war and the fact that Biafrans who fought in the Nigerian civil war will not speak of their experience surviving the slaughter. Not one word, to this day, not even to their families.#LitX #Books
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