There is nothing any of us can do about the fact that the world is shrinking so we need to learn how to speak more languages, not fewer. - Yemisi Aribisala

The more handling of a wide variety of food that one can manage the more open one’s mind and palate.

If one wants to be a good essayist, one needs to connect and do it at the level of the gut, infiltrate the blood–brain barrier and lose prestige or the footing of pride. Or shall I say, you have to give something of value away to gain the investment of the reader’s time and attention.

I am writing all the time on being Nigerian and living in Nigeria but I have been accused of being stylistically un-Nigerian. My direct address of taboo objects, subjects and descriptions of people are supposedly un-Nigerian.