I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

When the writing is going well, I'm obsessive. I don't shower, I don't take phone calls, I hardly respond to text messages, I don't do email. I take breaks only to read, and usually I read poetry. When it's not going well, I just lie in bed and eat chocolate.

Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.