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It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.

Chinua Achebe
Memories, Survivor, Storyteller
"Chinua Achebe and Nairobi Half Life" by Hayden Bixby, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.