It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

I cannot see myself as a writer, writing about lovers in Accra because you see, there are so many other problems.

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism... .It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Humans, not places, make memories.