Power Is The Ability Not Just To

Show A People As One Thing, Only One Thing, Over And Over Again, And That Is What They Become.

There Has Always Been A Strange Dissonance Between The Public And The Private In Nigeria.

I Can Write With Authority Only About What I Know Well, Which Means That I End Up Using Surface Details Of My Own Life In My Fiction.

Our Histories Cling To Us. We Are Shaped By Where We Come From.

I Am Drawn, As A Reader, To Detail-drenched Stories About Human Lives Affected As Much By The Internal As By The External, The Kind Of Fiction That Jane Smiley Nicely Describes As 'first And Foremost About How Individuals Fit, Or Don't Fit, Into Their Social Worlds.'