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Harriet Anena Quotes

Uganda

Ber Anena born and previously published as Harriet Anena is a Ugandan writer and performer, whose writing includes poetry, nonfiction and fiction. She is the author of a collection of poems, A Nation In Labour, published in 2015, won the 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.The Economist described her poetry performance as "an arresting evocation of love and war".

Uganda
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Africa is an annoying sibling, disappointing even, but you can’t get rid of them. So you focus on what’s good about them and beseech the gods to make them better the next day. Africa is home, despite its messyhouse.

Lay me soft on green grass like an offering. Take off my clothes one at a time like you are opening the Holy Book. Read the verses of my body until you master all chapters. Drink from my river of life. Make me your altar; wine your last supper.

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