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Giles Foden quotes: ... la kuvunda halian ubani. There is no incense for something rotting. And that is the condition of the world. This I know.

... la kuvunda halian ubani. There is no incense for something rotting. And that is the condition of the world. This I know.

Giles Foden quotes: The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

Giles Foden quotes: The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.

The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.

Giles Foden quotes: Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.

Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.

Giles Foden quotes: In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.

In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.

Giles Foden quotes: My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

Giles Foden quotes: They thought it was an enemy but it was only their own reflection.

They thought it was an enemy but it was only their own reflection.

Giles Foden quotes: My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.

My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.

Giles Foden quotes: I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.

I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.

Giles Foden quotes: Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

Giles Foden quotes: Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

Giles Foden quotes: To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

Giles Foden quotes: Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.

Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.

Giles Foden quotes: From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.

From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.

Giles Foden quotes: An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.

An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.