Obiwu

“Personally, my wish is for whites and blacks to know that the feeling one gets from love is the same for a white or a black person.”

“The life of an exile is always very complicated. I wrote of where my heart was, even though my body was here.”

“When writing my song, I like to make it as personal as possible.”

“The art of nation building, the next most important task of humanity, is the art of conversation.”

“As it has often been said, we laugh in order not to cry.”

“I spent many years taking stock of my new country, my new surroundings, and re-evaluating the first thirty-five years of my life which suddenly lay in ruins in Africa.”

“Poetry is sometimes the only glimmer of hope in the darkest corners and most difficult conditions of life.”