For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.
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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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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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The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.
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Humans, not places, make memories.
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Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
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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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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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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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Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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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’ve written poems about gifts.
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