Kole Omotoso

“What emerged from our history was a product born of conflicting desires... where the collective result was what nobody originally envisioned.”

“I write because I am concerned. My writing is informed by a passionate concern for society and politics in Nigeria.”

“I chose to write on Arabic theatre for my undergraduate long essay... Classical Arabic had no theatre tradition, but pre-Islamic poems had an incredible dramatic presentation that could be said to be nothing but drama and theatre.”