We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.

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

What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.

You get another person who operates only in an African language and there are many persons who operate only in African languages; he or she is excluded from all the goodies that come with English. And even in terms of justice, law codes, the legal system. A person who does not know English in Africa is excluded from that system because he can only operate through acts of translation.

I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a region, an ethnos, a clan, and even a village in some instances But Pan-Africanism has not outlived its mission. Seen as an economic, political, cultural, and psychological re-membering vision, it should continue to guide remembering practices