I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

A hungry man is an angry one.

I was a threat to a lot of women and to a lot of men. The women cannot forgive me if I remain single and also have a family. But I have a family as well and am raising them. A lot of women only stay in their marriages because of the children so seeing me on my own annoys them.

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

Men blackmailing you as a woman leads you to trivialise sex and say 'it's not important, what is important is myself as a person, no one owns me because of sex.'

I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.