To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. — Giles Foden Been 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… — Giles Foden Agriculture 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… — Giles Foden Any 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 Agricultural 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… — Giles Foden Borders 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… — Giles Foden Air 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… — Giles Foden Able Copy Share Image
Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe. — Giles Foden Allan poe 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 Childhood 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… — Giles Foden Boundaries Copy Share Image
Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook. — Giles Foden Add 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 Book 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 Uganda 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 Control 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 Head Copy Share Image
Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures. — Giles Foden American Copy Share Image
I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants… — Giles Foden Country Copy Share Image
The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture. — Giles Foden Corpses Copy Share Image
Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce… — Giles Foden About Copy Share Image
I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the… — Giles Foden African Copy Share Image
From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself. — Giles Foden African Copy Share Image
At school, I got into the whole CB thing, hiding a transceiver in my study-bedroom with which I'd make appointments to meet… — Giles Foden Appointments Copy Share Image
The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way,… — Giles Foden Been Copy Share Image
The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened. — Giles Foden Forgiveness Copy Share Image
