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Tijan Sallah Quotes

born 1958

Tijan M. Sallah (born 6 March 1958) is a Gambian poet and prose writer and economist.

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"A writer writes out of a particular locality and out of a particular local experience."

"Writing is a very private and very lonely business. As a young writer, the first thing is to learn your craft well."

"Writing is not an easy task. It doesn’t just come, it has to be developed. One has to practice a lot. Practice and learn from the mistakes of the past and never give up."

"I see the need for Africans to come together to define and develop a continental culture. But I also see the drawbacks of that, in terms of differences in language, traditions, etc."

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