10 Quotes & Sayings By Obehi Peter Ewanfoh

Obehi Peter Ewanfoh is the author of the best selling novel "Ota Lekpe", which won him the African National Book Award for literature in 1982. He has published five other novels, short stories, poetry and essays, as well as a children's book. He is also a script writer/director/producer of films and documentaries. He currently serves as Chairperson of the Creative Industries Council of South Africa Read more

Peter Ewanfoh has been writing since he was ten years old. His first poem was published when he was thirteen years old, his first novel when he was seventeen, and his first film script when he was twenty-one. He currently lives in Cape Town with his wife Riana, two children Timo and Nienke, and dog Oom Pauli.

1
Twenty good friends cannot live together in twenty good years”. We were more than twenty who left the school and the simple statement was beginning to echo hard in my ear, as if grandma actually had that particular day in mind. Pg.100 Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
2
The feast was seen everywhere and in everything. Some women in semi-dresses were busy doing many things at once. Domestic animals were crying their last, with knives on their throats. They too were celebrating the feast in their own ways. Pg.93 Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
3
Kukurukuuu, ’ our big rooster crowed as usual and it nearly put me off my sleep. My eyes were neither open nor close. In trying to go back to sleep I rolled to both sides on my small wooden bed, covered with a mat. The room was partially dark and warm, sleepless rats busy under my bed in search of food. Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
4
Dry your tears, woman, the boy will be found. Nobody can do him anything…” Gradually, the tears began to dry from Etusi’s eyes, thanks to Okokpujie’s words, a mighty force that swung the entire village to action. Pg.38 Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
5
Tell me my little children, what crime has this lizard committed that it must die this evening?” There was silence. In raising my head like a joke, I tried to laugh. That was the same time I realized that grandma was dead serious with us. Pg.26 Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
6
It is you who need to go, Amende. Go home; your friends are waiting for you. Pg.63 Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
7
I wish I were like you pa. I wish I had not been afraid, all my life! Pg.55 Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
8
Grandma; it was to grandma I truly wanted to have returned, but she was no more. I could only remember the day she died. The tears mother shed on me, as if I was going to face a more difficult world than any other member of our family. Pg.100 Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
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This land has brought forth numerous children, favouring both the bad and the good ones. It is not the land that is responsible for the people’s hardships, it is the people themselves. Pg.8 Obehi Peter Ewanfoh