The Cold War In Africa Is One

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

How Do Cultures Differ From One Another? Above All, In Their Customs. Tell Me How You Dress, How You Act, What Are Your Habits, Which Gods You Honor, And I Will Tell You Who You Are. Man Not Only Creates Culture, He Carries It Around With Him. Man Is Culture.

I Remember In 1978 Meeting Two Ugandan Captains In The Hotel Talking Russian. They Had Been Educated In Moscow And Since They Came From Different Ugandan Peoples, It Was The Only Way They Could Understand One Another.

There Aren't Many Such Enthusiasts Born. The Average Person Is Not Especially Curious About The World. He Is Alive, And Being Somehow Obliged To Deal With This Condition, Feels The Less Effort It Requires, The Better. Whereas Learning About The World Is Labor, And A Great All-consuming One At That. Most People Develop Quite Antithetical Talents, In Fact - To Look Without Seeing, To Listen Without Hearing, Mainly To Preserve Onself Within Oneself.

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.