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.
AMA ATA AIDOOAt 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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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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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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They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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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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Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
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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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I’ve written poems about gifts.
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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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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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Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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Humans, not places, make memories.
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Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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