Things are working out... towards their dazzling conclusions..

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young..

The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics..

I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places..

Ghana is like a lion without a head.

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the Afric….

Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes f….

the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it..

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet..

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics..

There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change..

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem..

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly..

Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not difficult..

Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a prec….

O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that the warmth from other people com….

Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children..

Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most….

money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seare….

No matter what anybody says, we can't have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet..

Soyinka's Death at Dawn, Auden's Musée des Beaux Arts, Stevie Smith's Not Waving but Drowning and Wislawa Szymborska's Some People come to mind immed….