There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.

Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.

Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.