"It is publishers who take stories from their raw state and turn them into food, food that may nourish or poison us. W…"

"It is also through books that some of the most enduring and pernicious images about Africa and black people persist. …"

"The African literary space is most likely the only artifact of culture in this neo-colonial moment that has yet to cu…"

"What I am interested in is how we create what I am calling the African archival future which will then form part of a…"

"We need to produce our own data in awesome, saturating quantities so that our own archives come to drown out the nois…"

"Perhaps the biggest challenge of publishing in Nigeria is that it’s close to impossible to find a consistently reliab…"

"...In the age of new socializing media, who can deny that a book as a material object is infinitely richer and more m…"

"There are some infrastructure challenges but they are challenges that I see as opportunities. In Nigeria and across t…"

"I am so happy to be here today. To be on this stage and to share the Abantu vision. Before I begin, I want to say tha…"

"It is not enough for us to say we must tell our own stories if we don’t equally think or talk about the enabling infr…"