Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

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

The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past – with all its imperfections – was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God’s behalf delivered them.

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

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

It is not quite true to say that I am not an advocate of writing in African languages. What I think is, one has to think about what is practicable.