Oris Aigbokhaevbolo

“Africa is problematic – its inhabitants are very poor, and the continent is always on the brink of a projected economic buoyancy that never happens. But it is also a continent of young people, with all of the possibility that demographic provides.”

“As both reader and writer, I like for words to be alive on the page, for one sentence to propel you to the next just by force of the way its words are arranged. I also think highly of clarity and insight. Now, if you add all three—a certain kind of entertainment, clarity, and insight—with the judicious use of punctuation, you will find that there is little else that a piece of prose writing needs, be it a story, an essay or a review.”

“I should first say that in a sense, the critic is really an essayist—at least the good ones are, in my mind. If you are called upon to write a long piece that is not fiction, almost automatically you are working somewhere within or at the periphery of the essay. The real distinguishing factor is the literary tone, which takes several form but you know it when you read it.”