When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.

The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

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.

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.