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

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.

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.

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

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

I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!