One would think he never sucked at his mother’s breast.

Nobody can teach me who I am.

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

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

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

Africa is people" may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.

Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write.