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Labo Yari
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Alhaji Labo Yari (14 April 1942 – 18 March 2023) was a Nigerian novelist, journalist, and founding member of the Association of Nigerian Authors. He is best known for Climate of Corruption (1978), regarded as the first English-language novel published in Northern Nigeria.
Quotes
Writers cannot change Nigeria.
Interview with Abdallah Uba Adamu, published by Everything Literature "Writers cannot change Nigeria" interview (19 May 2007).
Literature has never changed any society.
Explaining his view on the limits of literature as an instrument of social transformation, "Writers cannot change Nigeria" interview.
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Category:1942 births
Category:2023 deaths
Category:Authors from Nigeria