Shakespeare Is In Many Ways An African

At The Time Of Independence In 1975, Mozambique Was Extremely Poor. Many Portuguese Residents Abandoned The Country, Leaving Only A Handful Of Well-educated Mozambicans To Try To Run The Country.

When I Was A Very Young Author, I Knew I Needed To Build Myself A Tower Outside Of Europe. Like When You're A Hunter, And Build Towers To Watch The Animals Move. I Knew I Would Never Understand The World Without That Perspective. I Came To Africa For That Rational Reason, Although I Love Mozambique Now.

When Someone Asks Me To List The 10 Best Novels Ever Written, I Always Refuse To Answer.

The Stories I Create Are Never As Awful As Reality.

Certainly, I Know What It's Like To Be Obsessed. I Haven't Always Been There For My Children. They Could Reach Me, But I Wasn't Always There. But, You Know, That's Not Necessarily Anything To Do With Being A Writer. I Mean, A Taxi Driver Could Have The Same Problem... Maybe.