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Most of the children were shoeless and you were confronted with the dilemma that, no matter how much money you had and no matter where you could escape to overseas, you could not save yourself from your own country.

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"The challenge is always to write characters who are believable, even when readers disagree with them."

Everything Good Will Come (2005)

People don’t fear the wind until it fells a tree. Then, they say it’s too much.

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"Lagos is endlessly fascinating because it is always changing, yet somehow it remains the same city."

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"Memory is unreliable, but fiction allows us to search for emotional truths beyond facts."

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"I don't write to represent Nigeria. I write stories about people whose lives happen to unfold there."

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