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

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

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

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

Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.

There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.

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.