The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.