Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain is just incredible. And when we talk to one another and there is a certain sense of frustration and but I struggle not to let the frustration degenerate into dispair.

I don't care about age very much.

We live in a society that is in transition from oral to written. There are oral stories that are still there, not exactly in their full magnificence, but still strong in their differentness from written stories. Each mode has its ways and methods and rules. They can reinforce each other; this is the advantage my generation has - we can bring to the written story something of that energy of the story told by word of mouth.

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