Writing
Usman dan Fodio wrote about 480 poems in Arabic, Fulfulde and Hausa.
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“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.”
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“All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.”
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