26 Quotes by Giles Foden

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

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

I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the dust as you bump along in a Land-Rover. I go back there often.

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

You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties.

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

It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

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