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Don't feel that you have to tailor your literature a particular way to please any school of ideology. There will emerge in its own right, effortlessly, some kind of ideological direction which is a reflection of your thinking and you want your thinking, above all.

Wole Soyinka

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Wole Soyinka
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 13
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