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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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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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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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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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Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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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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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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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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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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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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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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