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.

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.

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

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

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.

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