Cloud travel is well and good when you have mastered the landings. I never have. I must live, not dream about living.

Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, 'Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?'

I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable.

There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.