"THERE ARE MOMENTS,ADMITTEDLY,WHEN THE IMPERATIVES OF DIALOGUE APPEAR TO BE FORECLOSED.NEVERTHELESS WE MUST NEVER STOP CONTRASTING THE DANGERS OF MONOLOGUE WITH THE CREATIVE POTENTIAL OF DIALOGUE, THE LATTER HOLDING OUT A CHANCE OF CONTRACTING IF NOT COMPLETELY DISSIPATING OUR CLIMATE OF FEAR."
WOLE SOYINKA-2004
HA!!!!CLASSIC SOYINKA,...one could say "english" please.why can't he just say that communication between people is more effective,towards finding resolution in conflict situations, rather than just a lone dictatorial voice or something to that effect.you have got to love the intricacies and difficulties of the english language,...or perhaps it's just that soyinka is an intellectual who doesn't talk laymen's english:)
i noted the above, because it is true, dialogue is a much more creative process,which can and does lead to resolution in issues, which are more peaceful,..i wish though that action was the result,..i've grown up believing the old adage,it's not what you say but what you do, that matters.south african's have learned to spend hours in dialogue, it is now about the doing (delivery)...more than the talking.
wole serote, selected poems
"i heard an old man
his weeping breaking down walls and steel
trying to fight insanity
which kept stalking and stalking
and finally taking away his sanity
while he was alone in a cell
and when the door opened
he dashed like a rat chased by cats
his sanity dangling from his small finger
and he was pinned down
was it not the same old man
who now waded through torn streets
and houses which echoed like empty shells
after the bulldozer had been there before him
tell me old man, tell me
through your absent eyes and mind
can i forgive (selected poems 98-9)
he did, forgive, but we never forgot. shades of soyinka's dialogue. dialogue that set aside the fear, and a nation being rebuilt,....
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