There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.
AMA ATA AIDOOI’ve written poems about gifts.
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Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.
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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism.
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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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They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
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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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Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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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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Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
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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 always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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Humans, not places, make memories.
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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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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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