For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism… .It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

I cannot see myself as a writer, writing about lovers in Accra because you see, there are so many other problems.

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

It’s a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.