WOLE SOYINKA: Politics, Poetics and Postcolonialism

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My task is to keep company with the fallen, and this word rose
in pride above spiked bushes. We must all stick together. Only the
fallen have need of restitution.
The Road


Words are mad horses
running hard to collect
recalcitrant debt from my teeming head


I will not tame them.
John La Rose


Any culture contains essential and secondary elements, strengths
and weaknesses, virtues, defects, positive and negative aspects, fac-
tors for progress or for regression.
Amilcar Cabral


Contradictions are our only hope.
Bertolt Brecht

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