My Search Is Always To Find Ways

Nigerians Are Everywhere. There's An Old Joke, Particularly About The Ibos, That When You Finally Land On Mars, You're Going To Find A Nigerian There Who Has A Shop That Is Selling Coca-cola--who Took A Speculative Trip 20 Years Ago And Has Been Waiting For Everyone Else To Arrive.

Fiction And Poetry Are My First Loves, But The Really Beautiful Lyrical Essay Can Do So Much That Other Forms Cannot.

I Didn't Leave Africa, I Left Nigeria, And For Political Reasons. But ... I've Never, Never Left Africa, And I Certainly Never Left What It Means To Be Ibo. That Is Something You Carry With You.

I Think It's An Aggregation Of All Of The Small Acts That Are Really Transformative. I Think A Group Of Small Acts Transform The Individual. And Maybe When The Individual Transforms, Collectively We Transform.

Since I Hold No Judgments Against My Characters, No Matter How Heinous They Might Seem, I Present Them As Real People With Their Own Moral Centers. We Might Feel Those Moral Centers Are Mis-calibrated, But They Are There And Are The Rudders That Propel Them. This Makes Reading My Work A Visceral Roller Coaster, 'cause The Reader Must Embark On The Journey Of The Protagonist Equipped Only With His Or Her Own Moral Center.