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Kossi Efoui Quotes

born 1962

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African writers are not here to testify to so-called African realities.

Dictatorships are more afraid of literature than writers are.

When life is difficult, when one does not dare to say everything, the poetic act certainly does not heal, but it can give one the strength to continue.

Literature does not claim to make soldiers drop their weapons. But there is something in the act of writing that can help.

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