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"The place you see in the morning is not the place you see every night—it could be a den of robbers at night. That's what I am trying to capture in the book—to show the many facets that make up Lagos."

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"I think the person is mad, because every human being changes every day, and the city changes faster than that."

"My biggest motivation for writing is to make people cry."

"I wanted a situation where the book could be used as a map to walk through the city of Lagos."

"I always feel like writing stories. That's what I do for a living and it doesn't matter what genre."

"Life is my biggest inspiration, followed by Lagos, which is my garden of ideas. I would atrophy as a writer if I left Lagos. The city is one huge, seething cesspit of stories."

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