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What emerged from our history was a product born of conflicting desires... where the collective result was what nobody originally envisioned.

— Kole Omotoso

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I write because I am concerned. My writing is informed by a passionate concern for society and politics in Nigeria.

I chose to write on Arabic theatre for my undergraduate long essay... Classical Arabic had no theatre tradition, but pre-Islamic poems had an incredible dramatic presentation that could be said to be nothing but drama and theatre.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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