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Femi Osofisan
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“How many of the celebrated works of Soyinka, Achebe, Clark, Amadi, Imam, Sofola, Ezeigbo, Obafemi have you seen on the screen? This is one of the factors that distinguishes the work of Kelani in fact-this aspect that he prefers to work with writers and published texts.”
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“Writing is what makes a writer. What changes, however, is the subject matter or the mode and the tools of writing.”
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“It always depends on what audience you're addressing, if it's predominantly Yoruba-speaking, or mixed, or the elite class, or even physically challenged. So it's not the story that chooses the language; stories can be told in all languages. It's the context of the telling that decides.”
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“I am one of those worried about the future of AI. Already, reading the essays of my students and engaging them in conversation afterwards, you can't but notice the disparity, the discordance between their knowledge and the essay that is AI-assisted.”
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“I become more and more frightened that these machines could very soon make the human person redundant and replace us.”
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“All good art is art devoted to beauty, yes, but beauty is what enhances our humanity, our capacity for love and empathy, for kindness and compassion for our fellow beings regardless of color or tribe or religion.”
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“I was very happy that an African was winning it for the first time.”
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“There are things I write that demand prose or drama. Poetry for me has always been a personal experience. So when I want to express things that hurt me deeply or those I am passionate about I write that in poetry, but when I’m dealing with social political issues and want to reach as many people as possible it comes in form of a journal. Also, because we live in a country where there is crisis all the time, I am more open to drama.”
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“With drama it’s usually the political crisis and social issues that are going on and also for prose. There is this misconception that if people are not in politics they are not important and it’s not right. There are people who are doctors and engineers, who are inventing things to help society develop, yet we don’t give them prominence.”
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“It is important to find ways of encouraging literacy and it occurred to me at one point that books are being written and people are not reading, yet readership of newspapers was spreading and many people are reading magazines. So I thought if people will not go to literature, can literature not go to them? Why not use the media that people like and put our stories? So that’s why I developed the series in the newspapers which I called ‘Tales that the country told me.'”
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“The thing about prose is that you can pick it up and read it by yourself. With the play, you only get half of the experience when you read it and miss a lot. Obviously the prose has the advantage because it was written to be read while a play has to be performed. So a judge has to find a balance.”
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“The only way to write is by writing. If you want to write, read well and write well. By reading, you learn from those who are good-you learn style, you learn use of language, which is even the major thing. Whatever language you are using, you must master that language. It is very important.”
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