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I do not think I can be a poet who sings (and singing contains wailing) for Africa without having faith that Africa can one day do right by its citizens.

— Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ

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African writers should not have to win a European or American literary prize before we recognize them as writers.

This place, it reminds me how lucky I am — just to be alive, to be walking out of here.

Black Star Nairobi (2013)

To me ‘home’ are the places I feel a need to fight in order to make them better.

African writers are trying to tell a good story that Americans are appreciating more and more, and appreciating its diversity and cross genre aesthetics – and that is a good thing

In the United States, there’s the Nevada desert — and football stadiums, if you count Jimmy Hoffa.

Black Star Nairobi (2013)

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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