Meshack Asare

"What good is a boy without a pair of good, strong legs?"

"We don’t think it is wise to bring that boy of yours out here. It is unlucky enough to have the likes of him in the village. We doubt if the Lagoon Spirit is pleased to have him sitting here as well! We think you must keep him in your compound."

"Perhaps there was nothing to envy about them."

"We are all here and happy today because of one brave, little man –and his dog."

"But now, he could only think of many young children, the sick and the very old people and all animals that were all in serious danger."

"He is just one of the boys of the small village, somewhere between the sea and the lagoon."

"The image of the maimed person and of the society around him becomes prosthetic. Replacement, re-establishment of the prior situation, substitution, compensation—all this now becomes possible language."

"The usual lazy yawn of the sea turned into an angry howl. The coconut leaves flapped and rustled, swaying desperately in the wind."