When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.

Africa is people" may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.

I'm very primitive; I write with a pen.

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.

The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the victims of the civil war, that market was actually destroyed and at the end of the war a new Nigeria has struggled to come into being and I believe that what is probably going to replace the market literature might be the video, which they have taken to in a big way, creating dramas. So that may be the next thing way we will see coming out of the local basic level in our society.

Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.

A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.