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The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.

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I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

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The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down...more

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Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way...more