"There are so many dissimilarities, so many unique points of difference between this one country in Africa and the res…"

"Parents have a lot of professing power over their children. Praise and admonishments are crafting tools like names."

"When CNN does not reciprocate with simple engagement with our hills and valleys, our romantic ideals, often only with…"

"The more handling of a wide variety of food that one can manage the more open one’s mind and palate."

"Investing one’s own disadvantage in words: Opening an artery onto the page, that kind of thing, apart from a love for…"

"We don’t have a Nigerian culture of cooking and monologuing. It is coming along now with social media and Nigerian fo…"

"If one wants to be a good essayist, one needs to connect and do it at the level of the gut, infiltrate the blood–brai…"

"One of the greatest ironies of writing is that you can write for a hundred years, write reams, but until you have som…"

"I come from a society where the default is conformity. I don’t know how to conform and I find myself putting question…"

"There is a need to speak on something and I don’t agree with the status quo. The self-deprecation probably comes from…"