I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.

We're a superpower with a Third World grid.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering.