Ghana: So, Who is Country's Mr. Average?

Accra — It was Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, who described the average-looking face of W.H. Auden as "a compressed lump of volcanic lava in controlled convulsion." That is not your everyday average description of an average face, is it? And, what did you expect? Soyinka is not an average man; he is perhaps, the greatest literary icon in sub-Saharan Africa.

He would prefer to speak above the average man, at least intellectually, but he would also be pleased if ungrateful blockheads, who cannot decipher the imagery behind an average literary expression about a village cockerel, appreciated his wisdom. Art, after all, has a universal dimension to it, averagely speaking. the average Ghanaian

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