History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice. (Wole Soyinka)

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

Wole Soyinka

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