By Mwalimu George Ngwane
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he ultimate mission of every writer is to liberate both the minds of the oppressed and the oppressors in order to cultivate a harmonious society. How this mission is attained may be a subject of controversy, but make no mistake about it, the message for every credible writer is the same; it is the style that may make the difference.
Ben Okri, the young London based Nigerian writer and winner of the 1991 Booker Prize once said “if you want to know what is happening to a nation, find out what is happening to the writer.” He ventures into combining the artistic creativity and the prophetic prowess of divinity when he further says, “the inklings of writers are the forgotten adventures of God”. In other words whenever power mongers become lost in the journey of personality cult, when the politician’s ship is drowning in the ocean of dictatorship, it is the writer who serves as the compass pointing the ship of state to the shores of sanity.
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