Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions.

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.

Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.