Sterile sky
Sterile Sky is a novel published in the year 2012 by Nigerian writer Sule Emmanuel Egya. The novel captures the religious conflicts of modern Nigeria and the enduring hope for peace. Muritala, a gifted student, grows desperate to escape from the web of poverty and religious extremism that surrounds him.
Quotes
edit- The North andthe South started hating each other
- Page 42
- Most people from the North are Muslims and most people from the South are Christians.
- Page 42
- I don’t interfere insuch trivial issues as church problems
- Page 143
- God, why don’t you come to our aid? How could you be so wicked! Help! Help! Help! Help! Is there any person or god who can help?! ...
- Page 26
- “Don’t worry about me, Big Sister. Christianity andIslam are foreign religions that don’t merit my attention anymore...The ancestral way ourfathers worshiped God is the best way for me.
- Page 40
- Oh yes, I know he existed in history.... Jesus Christ was agreat humanist of his time. Every history has its great humanists
- Page 40
- ...is not a third term that resolves the tension between two cultures ...it is always the split screen of the self and its doubling, the hybrid.
- Page 120
- It’s Allah’s destiny.
- Hadiza insists that her look is not the killer's fault but Allah's destiny. Page 113
- “ALLAHU AKBAR; WE HAVE WON A JUST WAR”
- The writings on a poster above Sadam's head. Page 159
- That’s the position he takes if the culprit is from the North
- Page 235
- the centrality of diffusion and the consequent prominence of Hausa has given thelanguage and culture a hegemonic character which at times silences the other languages andcultures
- Page 24