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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.

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The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.
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Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.
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It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds one of is Ake, by Wole Soyinka. What is it about these Yorubas?
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the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.
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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.
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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.
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It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not difficult.
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No matter what anybody says, we can’t have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.
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Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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Authoritarianism Computation Country Embarrass Expise Fight Literature Purpose Serve
At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.
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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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