It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
AMA ATA AIDOOIt is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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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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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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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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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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Humans, not places, make memories.
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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.
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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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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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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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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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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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