Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

I did not think of writing as a career and I don't think that I did this ever really, but I think of writing as something that I could do, I should do alongside whatever else I was doing. It simply grew on me.

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.

...Nothing puzzles God

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.