“In this country [England], writers write to entertain, they raise questions of individual existence...but for a Nigerian writer in my position you cant go into that. Literature has to be combative. You cannot have art for arts sake. This art must do something to transform the lives of a community, of a nation. And for that reason, literature has a different purpose altogether in that sort of society...The stories that I tell must have a different sort of purpose from the artist in the Western world...and art, in that instance, becomes so meaningful both to the artist and to the consumers of that art, because you do not just depend on them to read your books, you even have to live a life that they can emulate.” ―Ken Saro-Wiwa(executed on this day in 1995)
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 19:01:56 +0000
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