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.

We live in a society that is in transition from oral to written. There are oral stories that are still there, not exactly in their full magnificence, but still strong in their differentness from written stories. Each mode has its ways and methods and rules. They can reinforce each other; this is the advantage my generation has - we can bring to the written story something of that energy of the story told by word of mouth.

There is no story that is not true.

I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.