Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.
From Wole Soyinka
Probably to me the greatest singer, female voice, is Billie Holiday. And one of the most moving for me, I don't know why - maybe it's nostalgia, maybe because my life is one of constant partying, whatever.
I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.
The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.
And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.
One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking.
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