If Reason Ruled The World Would History

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.

In Modern Russia, You Have No Official, Formal Assessment Of This Past. Nobody In Any Russian Document Has Said That The Policy Of The Soviet Government Was Criminal, That It Was Terrible. No One Has Ever Said This.

The Continent Is Too Large To Describe. It Is A Veritable Ocean, A Separate Planet, A Varied, Immensely Rich Cosmos. Only With The Greatest Simplification, For The Sake Of Convenience, Can We Say 'africa'. In Reality, Except As A Geographical Appellation, Africa Does Not Exist.

I Remember That During The Period Leading Up To Independence In Angola In 1975, I Was The Only Correspondent There At All For Three Months.

More Than Anything, One Is Struck By The Light. Light Everywhere. Brightness Everywhere. Everywhere, The Sun.