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Quotation by Ama Ata Aidoo
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Ama Ata Aidoo (2)Additional Sources
"The Message" Fragment from a Lost Diary and Other Stories, eds. Naomi Katz and Nancy Milton (1973)The Plum Wayward Girls and Wicked Women, ed. Angela Carter (1986)Related Subjects
From all around the Third World,
You hear the same story;
Rulers
Asleep to all things at
All times—
Conscious only of
Riches, which they gather in a
Coma—
Intravenously
You hear the same story;
Rulers
Asleep to all things at
All times—
Conscious only of
Riches, which they gather in a
Coma—
Intravenously
Ama Ata Aidoo (b. 1942), Ghanaian scholar, poet. The Plum, Wayward Girls and Wicked Women, ed. Angela Carter (1986).
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