"The duty of all governments is to make the environment conducive for writers, incentivize them to produce their best works"

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“It’s a beautiful thing to find your book at a community book store that has raised you”

“I want to write. That pretty much sums up my aspirations for my career”

“Giving people opportunities to write and exposing people to technical experts in the space can be career altering”

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“Africans are naturally in tune with the ancestral realm. We “feel” things. “know” things”

“Writing for me is when I feel the most connected to myself and everything around me. I’d do it even if no-one ever read anything I wrote”

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