I felt the prison walls fall.
I've mentioned before, history is replete with writers who were persecuted and imprisoned for their writings, Wole Soyinka, Prof. Ali Mazrui, Dele Giwa was killed...
Something about writing that provokes one to think, feel and realize; reading is a form of freedom and offers the mind a sense of liberation— and not many people in power would want the minds of the ones they rule to be freed.
But should that stop us from writing? No! Paul (A.D 56), the apostle kept writing, even in Prison.
Writing is powerful; In 2013, Nelson Mandela described Chinua Achebe as the writer who brought the prison walls down. He said, "There was a writer named Chinua Achebe, who in the company of his books, I felt the prison walls at Robben Island fall down"
We write to tell stories, to make people realize there's more. We write cause it's a form of love, even God thought it wise to have His thoughts written down.
Above all, writing is an art, and at no point should you think little of this art.
Think of it, why would evil political leaders imprison writers if there's nothing to writing.
I'll end with this quote by Ebuka, "Tristan James" as he loves to be called;
"Writing is hard, but it's necessary.
Writing ain't dead, check the cemetery"
© Barnabas Ekpima
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