The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
“... la kuvunda halian ubani. There is no incense for something rotting. And that is the condition of the world. This I know.” — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
