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One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking.

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The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.

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African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.

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I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one-third on a plane.'

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I take friendship very seriously.

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I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

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The Lagos of my childhood was a well-laid-out maritime city.

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The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.

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No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

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After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.

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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 13th, 1934

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