My Writing Is A Combination Of Three

A Population Weakened And Exhausted By Battling Against So Many Obstacles - Whose Needs Are Never Satisfied And Desires Never Fulfilled - Is Vulnerable To Manipulation And Regimentation. The Struggle For Survival Is, Above All, An Exercise That Is Hugely Time-consuming, Absorbing And Debilitating. If You Create These ''anti-conditions,'' Your Rule Is Guaranteed For A Hundred Years.

In The Tropics The White Feels Weakened, Or Downright Weak, Whence Comes The Heightened Tendency To Outbursts Of Aggression. People Who Are Polite, Modest Or Even Humble In Europe Fall Easily Into A Rage Here, Get Into Fights, Destroy Other People. . .

A Journey, After All, Neither Begins In The Instant We Set Out, Nor Ends When We Have Reached Our Door Step Once Again. It Starts Much Earlier And Is Really Never Over, Because The Film Of Memory Continues Running On Inside Of Us Long After We Have Come To A Physical Standstill. Indeed, There Exists Something Like A Contagion Of Travel, And The Disease Is Essentially Incurable.

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

The Extent Of One Man's Guilt May Be Defined By How Much Of It Is Experienced By The Party He Injured.