I Didn't Leave Africa, I Left Nigeria,

You Can Count On Scandinavian Literature For A Certain Kind Of Darkness, A Modern Mythic Style.

The Problem Is We're Looking For Something That Doesn't Exist. We're Looking For Authenticity. There Is No Such Thing As Authenticity. There Is Either Good Art Or Bad Art. Art Is Never About Its Content. It's About Its Scaffolding.

I Truly Believe That Writing Is A Continuum--so The Different Genres And Forms Are Simply Stops Along The Same Continuum. Different Ideas That Need To Be Expressed Sometimes Require Different Forms For The Ideas To Float Better.

What I Do Is Create A Lens Through My Work That Corrects My Readers' Cognitive Dissonance And Says: You Will See All Of It - Not What You Want Or What Makes You Comfortable, But All Of It. And You Will Not Erase What Displeases You.

Fiction Is Risky For Writers Also In That The Process Of Making Certain Books, Of Shaping Certain Narratives, Leaves Scars And Marks On Your Inner Life.