One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems - where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?

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

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain is just incredible. And when we talk to one another and there is a certain sense of frustration and but I struggle not to let the frustration degenerate into dispair.

When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.