Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

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

The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what is now known as Nigeria, simply because of its own traditional structure of governance.

I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write.

Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.

Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.