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

We live in the real world - we live within a certain history of the plague that has landed on us.

I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm consciously adapting that play, or, as I've done with the Greek classics, Euripides and Oedipus, and I'm consciously adapting that play. Whether it influences me or not, I think it's the critics, the analysts who have to decide that. Me, I don't feel that I'm under the influence of any such sources.

The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.

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

You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?