Sterile sky

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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

• 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

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