Fiston Nasser Mwanza Mujila

Fiston Nasser Mwanza Mujila (born 1981 in Lubumbashi) is a Congolese writer. He lives in Graz, Austria, where he teaches African literature.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiston_Mwanza_Mujila&action=edit Quotes Literature deserves pride of place in the shaping of history. It is by way of literature that I can reestablish the truth.https://www.pulse.com.gh/articles/lifestyle/african-literature-7-mind-blowing-quotes-from-tram-83-by-fiston-mwanza-mujila-2024080304140095046?hl=en-US#:~:text=*%20%22Literature%20deserves%20pride%20of%20place%20in,you%20Minister%20of%20Agriculture%20and%20Bovine%20Farming.%22 Innocence is cowardice. You have to move with the times, brother.https://www.pulse.com.gh/story/african-literature-7-mind-blowing-quotes-from-tram-83-by-fiston-mwanza-mujila-2024080304140095046?hl=en-US#:~:text=7%20mind%2Dblowing%20quotes%20from%20'Tram%2083'%20by,have%20to%20move%20with%20the%20times%2C%20brother.%E2%80%9D There are cities which don't need literature: they are literature. They file past, chest thrust out, head on their shoulders. They are proud and full of confidence despite the garbage bags they cart around. https://xokigbo.com/2017/04/16/mujila-fiston-mwanzas-tram-83-requiem-for-the-african-writer-and-again-the-balance-of-todays-stories/?hl=en-US We need doctors, mechanics, carpenters, and garbage collectors, but certainly not dreamers.https://www.pulse.com.gh/articles/lifestyle/african-literature-7-mind-blowing-quotes-from-tram-83-by-fiston-mwanza-mujila-2024080304140095046?hl=en-US#:~:text=*%20%22We%20need%20doctors%2C%20mechanics%2C%20carpenters%2C%20and,is%20already%20written%2C%20we%20merely%20preface%20it.%22 So whenever I write, it feels like my age is reduced by half, or even fifteen, seventeen, perhaps thirty-five years. It feels like I am returned to the belly of my mother and therefore have no one to answer to. I forget, in turn, my ragged clothes and my tuberculosis and my setbacks and my old pairs of shoes.https://quote/2089846/Fiston-Mwanza-Mujila-So-whenever-I-write-it-feels-like-my-age-is-reduced-by-half-or-even?hl=en-US#:~:text=I%20forget%2C%20in%20turn%2C%20my%20ragged%20clothes,setbacks%20and%20my%20old%20pairs%20of%20shoes.%E2%80%9D The tragedy is already written, we merely preface it.https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10031449-your-fate-is-already-sealed-the-route-marked-out-in?hl=en-US Your fate is already sealed, the route marked out in advance... Death holds no meaning since you've never really lived.https://quote/2089846/Fiston-Mwanza-Mujila-So-whenever-I-write-it-feels-like-my-age-is-reduced-by-half-or-even?hl=en-US#:~:text=I%20forget%2C%20in%20turn%2C%20my%20ragged%20clothes,setbacks%20and%20my%20old%20pairs%20of%20shoes.%E2%80%9D References