The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

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

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

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.