It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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Ama Ata AidooAma Ata Aidoo 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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Ama Ata AidooAma Ata Aidoo For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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Ama Ata AidooAma Ata Aidoo They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
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