I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

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

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

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'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 wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.