Africa is people" may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.

Actually, I identify with all my characters, good and bad. I have to do that in order to make them genuine. I have to understand them even if I don't approve of them. Not completely - it's impossible; complete identification is, in fact, not desirable.

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

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

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.