Amadou Hampate Ba Famous Quotes & Sayings
4 Amadou Hampate Ba Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
Every old man that dies is a library that burns. 
Whenever an elder dies, a library burns down. 
Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed. 
In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.