I’ve written poems about gifts.
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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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I’ve written poems about gifts.
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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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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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The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.
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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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They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
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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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It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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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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Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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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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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 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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