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

As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

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