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I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.

— Wole Soyinka

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Explaining, in Berlin in 1964, a criticism of the concept of négritude he had made at a conference in Kampala in 1962.

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