African Bush Quotes by Giles Foden

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• My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the…
• From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as…
• My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.
• To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.
• Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce…
• I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the…
• In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.
• Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective…
• The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
• Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.
• I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.
• Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.

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