Children are very fair minded, they really are.

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way and say, 'this is it.' Always there will be someone who can tell it differently depending on where they are standing ... this is the way I think the world's stories should be told: from many different perspectives.

A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.