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

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

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

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

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.