I don't care about age very much.

Those who are talking sharia in Nigeria are really just politicians exploiting what they think is available. But if it should turn out that there are in fact whole sections of the country which believe that it is legitimate to chop off peoples hands because they stole a hen - if that should really turn out to be the genuine belief of responsible, educated people in the North than I would say there is no chance. But I do not believe that is the case. The sharia was always there but it was never force onto non-Muslims and it was not ever applied in the area of criminal law.

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

When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.