We don’t have a Nigerian culture of cooking and monologuing. It is coming along now with social media and Nigerian food celebrities. - Yemisi Aribisala

In Nigeria, we have given ourselves no other option than the institutional use of the English language. We haven’t, in addition, provided the necessity and the resources of mastering the use of multiple languages. And that opportunity is so pertinent.

I come from a society where the default is conformity. I don’t know how to conform and I find myself putting question marks against everything

There are so many dissimilarities, so many unique points of difference between this one country in Africa and the rest of the world.