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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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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

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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