Africa has no future.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

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

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.