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.

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

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.

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

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

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