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In the condition of the colonized there is no choice in the working language

— Nuruddin Farah

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My feeling is that any text written with informed African sensibility belongs to African literature.

If a character said something, I am not the one who said it!

What no one can reconstruct is the idea that was in our hearts, because there is mistrust among the people

I'm usually very lucky in not having to bother about looking after the books; the books can look after themselves.

I kept asking myself this question: What is worth being killed for?

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