As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.

I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.