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

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.

If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before.

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to get us to see what is important in our lives.

Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said - or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.