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

I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho,and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.

Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.

Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra would have, and, finally, the half of a yellow sun stood for the glorious future.

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.