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And every toemark on the footpath, every fingerprint on every bark, the ropy climbers flung, breathlessly, from tree to tree, the haunting sound, and silence, of this sweet and sour forest, dig deep channels to the sea of memory.

— Niyi Osundare The Eye of the Earth (1986)

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"It is by no means a mean achievement in a country where the male life expectancy is something between a dreadful 45 and 50 years."

"Moral apathy is no option. Silence is oftentimes an evasion of moral responsibility, an advertent or inadvertent complicity with those whose noise enslaves the world."

Passports are passports. The Atlantic is a wilderness of barbed walls brooking no windows, its door of deafening steel.

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