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The language is not the main issue; rather the key is, in the end, the ideas that carry the book

— 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

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

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

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