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Doreen Baingana Quotes

b. 1966

Doreen Baingana (born 1966) is a Ugandan writer. Her short story collection, Tropical Fish, won the Grace Paley Award for Short Fiction in 2003 and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book, Africa Region in 2006.

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There is something weird in our human psyche, maybe it’s a survival mechanism, to find laughter in the tragic. They say you have to laugh to stop yourself from crying.

I want to potray Africa as it is.

I do believe that this is an extra burden that is placed upon us that the white world does not have to worry about. We don't just have to explain our writing but our culture too.

I think there are still those expectations. The world still look at Africa in the negative light, but in Lagos, for example, there are skyscrapers, flyover bridges, etc; this is a functional modern African city and can be compared to other modern cities in the world.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Doreen Baingana (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.