Silence of a thousand years10/30/2023 ![]() ![]() So, all you noisy throng of adults, take heed! This gem of a title enunciates our very aware child-poet’s artistic principle. ![]() His very choice of title sets you thinking that we may well have a prodigy among us, because for those who know, the solitude which silence bestows is the beginning of wisdom for the truly creative mind. When sometime ago the city of Abuja witnessed the birth of a book, The Beginning of Silence, by the twelve year old author and poet, Ibrahim Zakama, even Joyce must rejoice that some cheeky yet to be teen boy dared to shred the implicit age-limits he drew on the sands for artists. ![]() James Joyce, the giant Irish modernist novelist of the twentieth century paid his own tribute to the creative genius of youth, when he published his first notable work and entitled it, A Portrait of An Artist As A Youngman.
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