The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

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. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.

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.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

We know the potentiality of Nigeria and the talent and the resources and to see it having no effect on the lives of the people, on the infrastructure, the roads, the hospitals, the schools, seeing no effect of these talents, these recourses is very frustrating. But it is the result of the damage that was done to the country, especially during the various military regimes.

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.