I think dialects should be left alone. People should write in whatever dialect they feel they want to write. In the fullness of time, these dialects will sort themselves out.

If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world's stories should be told - from many different perspectives.

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

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

There are people who say that if you are told that your house has fallen you don't ask what about the ceiling or what about the windows. The main thing is that this house, Africa, has fallen. Literature is just one aspect, pick any aspect of the situation.

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.