My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

I do not think that there is any time in our history when things were perfect. I do not expect such times in the near future either. But I think every generation has to examine what needs to be done, what belongs to its peace and proceed. And so what needs to be done will change with time depending on the conditions, whatever the conditions happen to be. And they will not be the same for generation after generation.

Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership.

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

A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.