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

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Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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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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Soyinka’s Death at Dawn, Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts, Stevie Smith’s Not Waving but Drowning and Wislawa Szymborska’s Some People come to mind immediately. But there are plenty, plenty more that I enjoy.
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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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After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that the warmth from other people comes so sweet to us when it comes, because, we always carry with us the knowledge of the cold loneliness of death?
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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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I’ve written poems about gifts.
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It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa’s young people properly.
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Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.
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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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Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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