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

If you ask me, Now, is it your best book? I would say, I don't really know. I wouldn't even want to say. And I'd even go on and say, I don't even think so.

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

Colonial rule means that power, initiative is taken away from you by somebody else who makes your decisions. If that goes on long enough, beyond one generation, then the habit of self-rule is forgotten. People are no longer able to realize what it means. To be dependant for a hundred years! And suddenly when this thing ends there is nobody who actually knows how to set about running the country.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?

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