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.

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

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

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

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

The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.

The summer I finished my first novel Ghana Must Go, I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lomé to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.