It’s 2118 and you’ve arrived in Lagos for a book festival. When you step out of the airport, what is the first thing you see?<\/b><\/p>\n
\u00a0Being that I\u2019ve never been to Lagos before and I\u2019ve an unwarranted nostalgia for the Lagos of 1970s, of the intensity of Fela\u2019s music, so what I see when I step out of the airport is The Shrine spilling out into the streets. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>You’ve been selected for a mission to the moon. Which African author are you taking and why?<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne. I have a suspicion he has been there before. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n What invention do you think would change the lives of Africans today?<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0It is invented already. African languages, but given equal platform to be spoken across all cultural and geographical fences and understood on their own terms. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Two things you\u2019re doing when not reading or writing?<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0Dancing and playing music. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To what extent has African literature envisioned an African future?<\/b><\/p>\n What\u2019s marvellous is the multiplicity of voices and experiences from all over the continent; if there is something to be said about \u2018an African\u2019 future, is the immense possibility that lives in that sheer abundance. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n