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Giles Foden has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as…
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My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.
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To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.
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Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce…
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I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the…
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In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.
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Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective…
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The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
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Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.
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I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.
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Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.
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I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
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I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this…
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I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
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I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.
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Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.
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