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Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information.

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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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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.
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Everyone Lonely Other Some Time
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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Humans, not places, make memories.
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Human Memorize Place
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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Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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Conclusion Cut Dazzling Toward Work
They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
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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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Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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Ghanam Like Head Lion Without
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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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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No matter what anybody says, we can’t have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.
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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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