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.

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

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.

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

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

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.

I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.