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

When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

I do not think that there need be the conflict between books and videos, that one would drive out the other. It certainly is possible to watch the screen for some things and for others to sit down and read, because the screen is easier to do, to watch is easier than to read because you don't have to contemplate anything. Someone else has done the work of putting it on the video.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.