19 quotes
"Like most people I am simply exhausted by politics."
Travelers (2019)
"The African novel is a hybrid form. It is a combination of the African folkloric tradition with the western novel form."
Travelers (2019)
"It is not about prizes, it is about the work."
Travelers (2019)
"I don't see myself as a spokesperson for Africa. I am simply a writer trying to write about people and about themes that interest me."
Travelers (2019)
"Writing is a very lonely business, so a prize sort of shows one that one is not working in a vacuum."
Travelers (2019)
Happiness is important, but I wouldn't say it is the main purpose of human existence.
Travelers (2019)
"Our job is to find out the truth, even if it is buried deep in the earth."
Oil on Water (2010)
"There is a tendency, especially in the West, to look at African writing as all about war and famine and refugees. But literature is supposed to show you life in a more balanced way."
Travelers (2019)
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a stranger in a strange city.
Travelers (2019)
Sometimes poets have to be imperfect so their poetry can be perfect.
Travelers (2019)
"The further from home you wander, the closer you get to Siberia."
Oil on Water (2010)
Hagar takes to prostitution whenrejection and hunger look her straight in the face
Waiting for an Angel (2002)
More than once ourtaxi was forced to hug the kerb as siren blaring military jeepspassed at top speed...”
Waiting for an Angel (2002)
"Can you continue to love a person regardless of such shortcomings? Maybe because you hope to save them? Or because you can't help it? Isn't that what love is all about?"
Oil on Water (2010)
The students, who should have been busy taking theirbaths and getting set for lectures, sat idly...discussing the boycottof lectures
Waiting for an Angel (2002)
Not all of us have that luxury, of a past. My history doesn't offer me much in that respect.
Travelers (2019)
Our story is over, the ink has dried, each of us must move on now and it will be as if we had never met, never loved, and never dreamt together.
Travelers (2019)
Nostalgia settled on my shoulders like the arm of a long-lost friend, urging me to look back and listen; it had been years since I heard such morning sounds, such silence.
Oil on Water (2010)
"You must take a year off, one of these days, before you’re old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away somewhere, and read. Read all the important books. Educate yourself, then you’ll see the world in a different way."
Oil on Water (2010)