The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military

Biotech crops are not a solution to solve hunger in Africa or elsewhere.

Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole.

The star rises from the east. Watch out!

You turn friends away before you discover they were good after all

We don't get to choose what or whom we love, I want to say. We just don't get to choose.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

Dancing well is the best revenge

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.