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.
AMA ATA AIDOOPeople are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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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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Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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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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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.
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Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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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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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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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’ve written poems about gifts.
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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
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It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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