Even when we believe with all our minds that life is meaningless, we simply can’t live that way. We know better. We know God is there. - Tim Keller Wisdom @DailyKeller
The only point in which the Liberians excel, perhaps, all the other inhabitants of the globe, is in their amazing self-conceit. Their army, I was informed, consists of 1000 men, 998 of whom regard themselves as officers.- Charles A Robinson, Hausaland, p53 1900
Whilst the Fulahs are a shrewd and intriguing race of soldiers and diplomatists, caring little for trade but passionately desirous of obtaining for themselves dominion and power, the Hausas are a quiet commercial people, who carry their manufactures far beyond the limits of their own country, but with little or no ambition to interfere with the political constitution of the countries in which they trade.- Charles A Robinson, Hausaland, p79 1900
There are usually about five hundred slaves at a time on sale in Kano market, and they are bartered for and so in just the same way as other merchandise. - Charles A Robinson, Hausaland, - p124 1900
I think a fact which admits of no doubt whatever, that at the very least one-third (in Hausaland) are in a state of slavery.- Charles A Robinson, Hausaland, - p127 1900
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