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Quotes from Sosu's Call — Meshack Asare

born 1945 Ghana

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We are all here and happy today because of one brave, little man –and his dog.

Sosu's Call (1997)

What good is a boy without a pair of good, strong legs?

Sosu's Call (1997)

He is just one of the boys of the small village, somewhere between the sea and the lagoon.

Sosu's Call (1997)

Perhaps there was nothing to envy about them.

Sosu's Call (1997)

The usual lazy yawn of the sea turned into an angry howl. The coconut leaves flapped and rustled, swaying desperately in the wind.

Sosu's Call (1997)

But now, he could only think of many young children, the sick and the very old people and all animals that were all in serious danger.

Sosu's Call (1997)

The image of the maimed person and of the society around him becomes prosthetic. Replacement, re-establishment of the prior situation, substitution, compensation—all this now becomes possible language.

Sosu's Call (1997)

Attribution

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