"Writers such as Richard Powers and the late……" — Giles Foden
"Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all national boundaries are quaint curiosities."
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15 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…
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From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, 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…
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Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph…
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I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell…
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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…
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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…
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Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.
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