Gabriel Okara

Gabriel Okara (1921-2019), full name Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara, was a Nigerian writer, poet, novelist, and civil servant is known for writing having mystical quality and capturing African speech patterns in English.

Wisdom & Quotes

• If you listen to every said-thing in this world, you cannot achieve anything or you the wrong thing will do. If you inside says this is a straight thing, do it. Let not people's said things you inside spoil.

- The Voice (This book is an early attempt to merge English and African language structure in prose form.)

• What of spoken words? Spoken words are living things like cocoa beans packed with life. And like cocoa beans they grow and give life. ... They will enter some insides, remain there and grow like the corn blooming on the alluvial sod at the riverside.

- The Voice

• There was a time indeed

they used to shake hands with their hearts.
- Once Upon a Time

Julius K Nyerere