It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write.

I have found that I work best when I am at home in Nigeria. But one learns to work in other places.

My weapon is literature

If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities