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

A hungry man is an angry one.

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.

I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

But who made the law that we should not hope in our daughters? We women subscribe to that law more than anyone. Until we change all this, it is still a man's world, which women will always help to build.

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