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.

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.

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.

A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

Nobody can teach me who I am.

There are people who say that if you are told that your house has fallen you don't ask what about the ceiling or what about the windows. The main thing is that this house, Africa, has fallen. Literature is just one aspect, pick any aspect of the situation.