And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.

Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind

Let's say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don't think we have a new Nigeria yet.

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.