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

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Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
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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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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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Humans, not places, make memories.
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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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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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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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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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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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It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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I’ve written poems about gifts.
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Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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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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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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