You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.

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

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

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