I’ve written poems about gifts.
AMA ATA AIDOOGhana is like a lion without a head
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Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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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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Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.
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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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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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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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Humans, not places, make memories.
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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.
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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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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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They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
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