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

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

When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.

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

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

How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?