I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

The less you know, the more you believe.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.