Of course it's very, very important for me to feel Kenya, to feel, every day, this is where images come from. So to be taken away from that by political pressure or other means - one is taken away from the area, which is the basis of inspiration - is difficult.

If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.

I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison."

Another phenomenon developing in Kenya is ethnic cleansing - and that's the thing that has made me very sad. Because some people will use the cover of the problems of rigged elections to do things that are unacceptable like ethnic cleansing and displacement of people. It's completely unacceptable.

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.