Interview: My Writing Can Make a Difference – Ibrahim Saleh

I started writing short stories when I was in JSS 2. Later I stopped because I thought writing is not for doctors or engineers, but that didn’t stopped me from reading I always believed that readers are explorers, it’s through reading one can meet and visit places without moving a finger. I continued to write when I got to JSS 3 after reading a collection of poems written by a chemical engineer whose name I can’t remember. From his book, I learned that writing is not limited to a particular group of people and that also motivated me to start writing poetry.

Yeah, meeting Soyinka has been my dream. I write, not really to win prize. I write with hope that my readers will find therapy in my works. Back then my writings are only limited to me and my diary, whenever I write, I find kinda ease and therapy to myself I later though that “what if l can help others with my words like I do to myself” after giving it a deep thought, I came to conclusion that “my ink is made for humanity”

Of course I felt very happy. The kind of  happiness that erupt in me whenever I remembered the moment when we shook hands with Kongi admist the flashes of camera.

Manage? it’s all about planning, being a science student and yet I do write is because of proper planning. So I guess I don’t manage to write.

Sulaiman Addonia, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Prof Wole Soyinka.

No, I don’t. I write because I believe that my writing can make a difference. And I said earlier whenever I write I kinda feel ease.

So far, I got not much of challenges just at times feeling reluctant to write.