The production schedule has also been difficult. We need to publish four times a year to meet the schedule. We are working on this.

The infrastructure of the organization needs to be stronger. That's the main thing I'm working on.

Where do you see it in, say, five years' time?

In five years' time, I want and expect it to be a major litmag on the international circuit, selling sufficiently. But the magazine in itself is just the tool, the umbrella for other SABLE products.

For example, in the mid-'90s I set up the writer's hotspot - writers' trips abroad. We went to the Gambia, New York and Cuba. These will re-start next year in the Gambia and Senegal and will be linked to the litfest that I also piloted in 2005 and we are going to launch an award... In five year's time no writer will want to be without Sable.

What is Dreams, Miracles and Jazz: Adventures in New African Fiction?

It is an anthology of short stories by new African writers, on the continent and in the Diaspora. One criteria was that writers should be born on the continent or be of African parentage. I co-edited the anthology with novelist Helon Habila. It is being published by Picador Africa and will be out in 2007.

In your own work that has been published and broadcast locally and abroad, what do you tend to explore most?

In fiction, I tend to write a lot about the dichotomy of being an African in the Diaspora and an African at home (in different scenarios).

I thought about this a few days ago actually and decided that I need to do some radically different stuff! Well I had kind of thought about it before as I want to put together a short story collection and the theme of it will take me away from this topic. I may include it somewhere, but not entirely. Immediately I thought, it would make a great anthology - to include other people's stories under such a theme. I had to stamp my foot though as a little voice in the back of my head said, "there you go again - why do you have to put other writers in it? If you like this idea for yourself, and think it is a great one, just go for it, for you!"

In poetry, I'm more adventurous. Absolutely anything goes.