"I’m trying to showcase that when people write from anywhere in the world they’re telling stories that they can relate to"

"in anything that you do, you have to have a lot of determination and self-confidence. Always persevere, be honest wit…"

"I think usually a lot of African kids, if they have any artistic inclination, their parents tend not to really take i…"

"So crime really is a cross cutting in any society, I don’t care where you live in this world. Crime is publicist and …"

"Well I think it would be some of the problems you find in general in undeveloped countries like the issues of literac…"

"So often the detective is a man and the woman is his lovely wife who the detective goes home to. We are just the back…"

"Science can be challenging but literature and art, that’s like home to me. I used to live in bookstores"

"It never occurred to me in my mind as an African I could actually get published and be on the shelves like those people"

"Mysticism is a theme that is wedded to African culture, that people see things and perceive things in different ways"

"In all the books that Cassava is promoting, they can see that this is not ‘Africa"