When I tried to create a new political party, which I stressed that this is not my party. I believe very much that there has to be a revolution and this is a party for the young.

My interest in culture generally is a comparative one, and I think that's where the word joy, I think, can be applicable. There's joy in actually seeing the relatedness, the connectedness of different cultures or recognising, for instance, your own culture in another or another culture in your own culture and feeling an air to all of them.

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

A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

I think the epicentre of terrorism whether you call it cesspit or whatever you want to call it, shift, if you asked me a while ago, I would have said Somalia, Somalia has quietened a bit - and I think the epicentre right now is in Northern Nigeria.

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