But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.

After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.

I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.