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

money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seared you through and up and down. Then only would he eventually leave you, but nothing of you except an exhausted wreck, lying prone and wondering who are you.

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

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.

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.

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

Humans, not places, make memories.