I Remember In 1978 Meeting Two Ugandan

The Tradition Of Russian Literature Is Also An Eastern Tradition Of Learning Poetry And Prose By Heart.

The Official Independence Celebration Was Going To Be Held Over Four Or Five Days, And A Group Of Journalists From All Over The World Was Allowed To Fly In, Because Angola Was Closed Otherwise.

The Cold War Was Waged In A Particularly Brutal And Cynical Way In Africa, And Africa Seemed Powerless To Do Anything To Stop It.

Although A System May Cease To Exist In The Legal Sense Or As A Structure Of Power, Its Values (or Anti-values), Its Philosophy, Its Teachings Remain In Us. They Rule Our Thinking, Our Conduct, Our Attitude To Others. The Situation Is A Demonic Paradox: We Have Toppled The System But We Still Carry Its Genes.

This Is The Most Intimate Relationship Between Literature And Its Readers: They Treat The Text As A Part Of Themselves, As A Possession.