I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.

It's the place to begin, always -- to return to home, literally.

As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.

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

You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.

I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard against it. If I have difficulties in the writing, I just go and do other things. I don't feel a compulsion to write.

Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.