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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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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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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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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other.
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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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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.
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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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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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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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I’ve written poems about gifts.
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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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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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