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They too are the earth, the swansongs of beggars sprawled out in brimming gutters. they are the earth. under snakeskin shoes and Mercedes tyres

— 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.

Waiting Laughters (1990)

My song is space beyond wails, beyond walls, beyond insular hieroglyphs, which crave the crest of printed waves.

Waiting Laughters (1990)

And seasons which wax so loud with the eloquence of the sword, arrogant thrusts and chronictes of desperate gorings

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