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.

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

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.

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

When I came to England it wasn't what it is now, then the black people were very rarely strong. I had a personal shock because England wasn't what I expected it to be... where people lived like Jane Austen.