An angry man is always a stupid man.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

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.

You don't ever want to say to a young person, You can't, or, You are no good. Some people might be able to do it, but I don't think I am a policeman for literature. So I tell them, Sweat it out, do your best.

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.

It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.