Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves

I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world's stories should be told - from many different perspectives.

I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that's where the majority of the citizens are and that's where the engine of of development has to be found.

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.