I'm not a propaganda machine. I tell things how I see them. When I say, for example, that corruption is not the only thing the West should think about when they think about Nigeria, I'm not saying it doesn't exist but that people have the complete wrong focus. There's music, there's art, there's culture.

My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.

I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.

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