I'm not just a feminist - I'm a feminist plus.

Women should not be suppressed because they are women, because they have children and because of men. Then I am a feminist. But when it comes to the African concept, for the moment, I say 'feminist plus'. We have so many other problems.

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.

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

I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

A hungry man is an angry one.