Writing Has To Support Itself.

I Have Trusted To My Intuition To Find The Subjects, And I Have Written Intuitively. I Have An Idea When I Start, I Have A Shape; But I Will Fully Understand What I Have Written Only After Some Years.

Africa Has No Future.

Life Doesn't Have A Neat Beginning And A Tidy End; Life Is Always Going On. You Should Begin In The Middle And End In The Middle, And It Should Be All There.

You Can't Deny What You've Learned; You Can't Deny Your Travels; You Can't Deny The Nature Of Your Life.

It Has Had A Calamitous Effect On Converted Peoples. To Be Converted You Have To Destroy Your Past, Destroy Your History. You Have To Stamp On It, You Have To Say 'my Ancestral Culture Does Not Exist, It Doesn't Matter'.