I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings..

The summer I finished my first novel Ghana Must Go, I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lomé to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou..

The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips..

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own..

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart..

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford..

How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?.

As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I ca….

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen..

Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide..

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or inte….

Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without tha….

I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I thi….

I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew ….

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from and I've often wond….

When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after ….

I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark pai….

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play..

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims..

The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart..

What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that me….