I believe that prizes are useful things for the disciplines, whether we are talking about chemistry or we're talking... It motivates, it, you know, inspires, it encourages and it brings, in the case of literature, it brings literature, the arts out of the ghetto.

I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

The man dies in all those that keep silent.

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