When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership.

A good leader for instance is somebody like Nelson Mandela. I do not have seen such people coming every generation, maybe every ten generations, every hundred generations. People who are miracle workers.

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.

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

Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't really know about its value to the student. I don't mean it's useless. But I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write.