It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
AMA ATA AIDOOThe very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.
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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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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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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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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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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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Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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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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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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Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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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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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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Humans, not places, make memories.
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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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