Yvonne Vera

The legend, the history is created in the mouth, and therefore survival is in the mouth.

http://africanistes.revues.org/2441


If speaking is still difficult to negotiate, then writing has created a free space for most women -much freer than speech [...] The book is bound, circulated, read. It retains its autonomy much more than a woman is allowed in the oral situation
(Vera, 1999: 3).

‘The beginning grows into something; the end into nothing but what has been.’