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Kojo Laing Quotes

1946–2017 Ghana

B. Kojo Laing or Bernard Kojo Laing (1 July 1946 – 20 April 2017) was a Ghanaian novelist and poet, whose writing is characterised by its hybridity, whereby he uses Ghanaian Pidgin English and vernacular languages alongside standard English.

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The minute you locked yourself in ultimate certainty you lost a great deal of your freedom.

Destiny is such a selfish thing: it not only achieves itself when particular things happen, but also when the opposite of everything is realized.

When all facts get finished you then entered the insights.

The minute you thought there was greater excitement in uncertainty and in determinacy then you were severely limiting your freedom.

The thing about divinity was that the minute you discovered or invented such presence, it took on a life of its own and exhorted worship and doctrine as constant means of re-creation and re-experience.

The futuristic warfare methods employed in the book’s world are a bit odd. With the UN observing, each side’s army can be only large enough to fit in a specific area, and to avoid injuring people, the fighters can only shoot into the ground.

Major Gentl and Achimota Wars (1992)

Attribution

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