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

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

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

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.

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.

O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that the warmth from other people comes so sweet to us when it comes, because, we always carry with us the knowledge of the cold loneliness of death?