Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

The idea of progress has a couple of contradictions … it leads to Eurocenterism….

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle — that's my map of Africa.

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.

I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.

We all know what is meant by the term 'international community,' don't we? It's the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term 'international community' is a way of dignifying the West, of globalising it, of making it sound more respectable, more neutral and high-faluting.

Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests.

If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the 'survival of the fittest?'

If gold was found anywhere on the globe, that region would shortly be governed by English speakers.

We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization.

It doesn’t matter if we don’t consider ourselves an empire. Others see us as impinging on their lives, their way of life.

Imperialism dies hard, especially when there are people making money.

In Western Europe there are now only small countries—those that know it and those that don't know it yet.

Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

So ubiquitous is Western influence that most of the time it is no longer seen as an alien element intruding into non-Western societies. It is an influence that has become integrated into the mind and body, the heart and soul of the non-Western human being. Western dominance, in other words, has become normal, it has become natural. By making it so natural and so normal to be 'Western', the centres of power in the West have achieved their ultimate triumph.

The main reason western culture has been dominant is because Europeans have controlled political, economic and social power including educational policy for the last several centuries.

The US became arrogant because of what it owns of weapons and technology. For that, it handles the world as it pleases, and changes the ideologies of people, their habits and ethics in order to spread Western culture at the expense of Islam.

The peace treaties of…Western nations…no more fit the Asian governments than a stove pipe hat would fit an African savage.

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

The great question of the 20th century is whether the Anglo-Saxon of the Slav is to impress his civilization upon the world.

We brought those demons under control through European structures. But if we destroy these structures, the demons will return.

To the Left, Islam, like the rest of the 'Third World,' is one of the many victims of Western Imperialism.

As well as our relationship with Afghanistan, I am researching the legacy of other European empires - in Africa. We think of those empires as history, but actually, they still haunt our everyday lives in the strangest of ways.