Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use. (Wole Soyinka)

Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.

Wole Soyinka

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