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Humans, not places, make memories.
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Humans
Making Memories
Memories
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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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Ghana
Lions
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Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.
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African
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They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
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Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
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Argument
Sometimes
Triggers
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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
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Wanted
Writing
Young
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Things are working out... towards their dazzling conclusions.
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Conclusion
Dazzling
Work Out
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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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Ifs
Matter
No Matter What
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Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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Children
Firsts
Parent
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It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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Sad
Frightened
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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
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Bored
People
Worms
Immensely
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I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
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Life Is
Sometimes
Unlikely
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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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Lunch
Remains
Topics
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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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Guilty
Needs
People
Africa
Attack
Politicians
Frankly
Meeting
Properly
Young People
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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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Ideas
Interesting
Writing
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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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People
Powerful
Progress
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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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Knives
Sides
Way
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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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Teacher
Careers
Knowing
Age Teacher Me
Replied
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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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Found
Wonder
Writing
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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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Time
Mean
Moving
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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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Artist
Authoritarianism
Corruption
Fighting
Literature
Purpose
Utilitarian
African
Fight
Embarrass
Expose
Serve
Understandable
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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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Art
Mind
People
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Africa is not fulfilling people's hopes and aspirations. African leaders have not had an agenda that included governing Africa so that people would find their careers, their life, dreams and visions fulfilled here.
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Careers
Fulfilled
Governing
Africa
African
Aspirations
Hopes
Included
Visions
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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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Men
Love Is
Song
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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. 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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Loneliness
Lonely
Sweet
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money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seared you through and up and down. Then only would he eventually leave you, but nothing of you except an exhausted wreck, lying prone and wondering who are you.
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Lying
Order
Wrecks
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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. 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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Memories
Ordinary
Writing
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