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

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.

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.

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.

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

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