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- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.
- Africa
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences.
- Bump
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the dust as you bump along in a Land-Rover. I go back there often.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance - there's gotta be gold in them thar hills.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school, I got into the whole CB thing, hiding a transceiver in my study-bedroom with which I'd make appointments to meet girls in town. I wasn't good enough at physics to take it much further than fun, but I suppose there was a need to communicate.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020