It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

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, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.