Meshack Asare

Meshack Asare

Meshack Asare (born September 18, 1945) is a popular African children's author.

Quotes

Sosu's Call (1997)

• A stone’s throw from the sea
  • Describing Sosu's house. Page 5

• What good is a boy without a pair of good, strong legs?
  • Page 7

• 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.
  • Page 9

• Perhaps there was nothing to envy about them.
  • Page 12

• The usual lazy yawn of the sea turned into an angry howl. The coconut leaves flapped and rustled, swaying desperately in the wind.
  • Page 17

• 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.
  • Page 22

• We are all here and happy today because of one brave, little man –and his dog.
  • Page 34

• He is just one of the boys of the small village, somewhere between the sea and the lagoon.
  • Page 37

• 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.
  • Pages 123-24