It is not quite true to say that I am not an advocate of writing in African languages. What I think is, one has to think about what is practicable.

Women and music should not be dated.

Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

There are people who say that if you are told that your house has fallen you don't ask what about the ceiling or what about the windows. The main thing is that this house, Africa, has fallen. Literature is just one aspect, pick any aspect of the situation.

Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write.