The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops.

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact….

I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking..

Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined….

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to….

Yes, there's a relaying of internal states that only a novel can achieve. In my view, the novel is one of Europe's greatest gifts to the world. Ameri….

We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is suc….

Not all coincidence has to be loaded with meaning. Sometimes, things simply recur because that's how it is in life, that's how the mood gets in. It's….

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege..

I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly..

Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This is part of how one creates a….

I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from the rain, the s….

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening..

Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer….

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three..

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner..

It is dangerous to live in a secure world..

Things don't go away just because you choose to forget them..

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent..

I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones..

The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of its possibilities. Kundera goes on ….