Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

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

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

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.

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.

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.