Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.

The rural areas have been deprived by the cities in the past. Development resources and energy should be directed where the people live.

There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.

If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world's stories should be told - from many different perspectives.

...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

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