The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo’s fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself.

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.

A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.