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Tim Butcher

(1967) Journalist

5 quotes in 14 categories

Tim Butcher is a journalist.

Quick Facts About Tim Butcher

Born: November 15, 1967
Profession: Journalist

About Tim Butcher

[Wikidata] British journalist... | [Wikipedia] Tim Butcher is an English author, broadcaster and journalist. He is the author of Blood River (2007), Chasing the Devil (2010) and The Trigger (2014), travel books blending contemporary adventure with history.

Quotes by Tim Butcher

“the normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary and it…

Congo

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“….So much crueller than any British colony, they say, so much more brutal towards the local Africans, so much more manipulative after…

Freedom

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“The old man might have been drunk, but he was right. Outsiders have robbed and exploited the people of the Congo ever…

Modern era

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“The collapse of the state in this large swathe of Africa meant that its people either relied on the charity of outsiders…

Long way

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“In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken.”

Africa

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