Occupation: Novelist Birth: August 14, 1944 Death: January 25, 2017
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not….
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, ….
I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I vie….
I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame..
Men blackmailing you as a woman leads you to trivialise sex and say 'it's not important, what is important is myself as a person, no one owns me beca….
I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever..
I'm not just a feminist - I'm a feminist plus..
Women should not be suppressed because they are women, because they have children and because of men. Then I am a feminist. But when it comes to the ….
But who made the law that we should not hope in our daughters? We women subscribe to that law more than anyone. Until we change all this, it is still….
Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us..
Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience..
I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and….
I was a threat to a lot of women and to a lot of men. The women cannot forgive me if I remain single and also have a family. But I have a family as w….
When I came to England it wasn't what it is now, then the black people were very rarely strong. I had a personal shock because England wasn't what I ….
I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman..
As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money..
In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today..
A hungry man is an angry one..
I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back..