If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

Africa has no future.