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

Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.

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

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

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

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

Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.