“If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.”

— Chinua Achebe , book Things Fall Apart

Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 13 (p. 118)

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Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic 1930–2013

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