"The book you are about to read, When the King cries and other stories, captures the true essence of life in the Niger Delta communities of Nigeria. Like in some African countries, stories are just not told for the sake of telling stories, most stories are didactic. It is in this light that the stories in the collection are to be read for there are moral lessons one could learn from them."
Frank Nicholas Ilogu, Executive Director of News, Voice of Nigeria (VON); Lagos, 9th March, 2007.