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

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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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There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.
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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.
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I’ve written poems about gifts.
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Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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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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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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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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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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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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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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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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Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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