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

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

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

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.

I think dialects should be left alone. People should write in whatever dialect they feel they want to write. In the fullness of time, these dialects will sort themselves out.

An angry man is always a stupid man.

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.