He felt there had to be ‘something’. He felt human beings must create, each in their own way, and that it was only by the application of vision, only… - Ben Okri

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.

I went about the market confused by many voices that could have been Mum's, many faces that could have been hers, and I saw that her tiredness and sacrifice were not hers alone but were suffered by all women, all women of the marketplace.

Besides, you are seeking something you have already found, but don't know it. Such are the causes of unhappiness.