In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

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

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

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.

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

I think as you grow up and you see things which are around you and you ask questions and you hear the answers, your situation becomes more and more of a puzzle. Now, why is it like this, why are things like this and since writing is one way in which one can ask this questions and try to find these answers, it seems to me a very natural thing to do, especially as it meant stories which I always found moving, almost unbearably necessary.