I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way and say, 'this is it.' Always there will be someone who can tell it differently depending on where they are standing ... this is the way I think the world's stories should be told: from many different perspectives.

I think Africa is slowly learning - and painfully - that importance of insisting on responsible leadership. It will come eventually, and we may be impatient and rightly so, because it is not coming fast enough. But that is the way to go.

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

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.

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.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.