"I thought the novel would be traditionally structured, set in the present, with flashbacks to the 18th century. But t…"

"I was devastated. I felt immense rage. The dungeons still smell after hundreds of years. There was grime on the walls…"

"It is a dual thing – you belong and you don’t. I remember the Ghanaian passport official reading my name correctly an…"

"It’s interesting because this book comes from a place of always feeling like I wasn’t Ghanaian enough for Ghana and n…"

"We believe the one who has power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must ask …"

"You want to know what weakness is? Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing tha…"

"The need to call this thing “good” and this thing “bad,” this thing “white” and this thing “black,” was an impulse th…"

"You cannot stick a knife in a goat and then say, "now I will remove my knife slowly - so let things be easy and clean…"

"This is the problem of history. We cannot know that which we were not there to see and hear and experience for oursel…"

"Evil begets evil. It grows. It transmutes, so that sometimes you cannot see that the evil in the world began as the e…"