We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

We're a superpower with a Third World grid.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

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

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.