“The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My...” — Chinua Achebe Quote

“The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.”

“Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.”

“My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.”

“My dad's Nigerian and I grew up in London, and that's just how it is.”

“I have a saying: Nigerians don't fit in second place. Everything we do we go hard.”

“I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.”