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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi
“A poet says, “The libraries of how many a nation did that orphan wipe clean who did not even learn how to read?”
Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi, Faza’il e Durood

Vincent Okay Nwachukwu
“The unlettered does his utmost to distance a sign-post because most host almost a legion of inexplicable inscriptions. The illiterate is considerate of his deficiency and makes a deliberate effort commensurate with his status lest he is deemed obdurate.”
Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1