Adenebi becomes defensive and says, "Have you no feeling for those who died?" - Wole Soyinka

I do not hate progress, only its nature / Which makes all roofs and faces look the same.

the contemporary novel . . . I've read one or two: Rushdie, I've enjoyed, again, exceptionally, Marquez, I love his works: that's another exception. Bessie Head: I found her novels very, very gripping, fascinating, challenging, really intellectually intriguing. Then that black American woman writer, Toni Morrison, the author of Sula, Song of Solomon: she's a fascinating writer. Umberto Eco . . . But generally I don't read novels.

Ideas, like everything else, can be corrupted. Power is like that: it pollutes everything it touches.