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

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.

I have found that I work best when I am at home in Nigeria. But one learns to work in other places.

If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.

Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves

My weapon is literature