Author: Giles Foden

Quotes

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

- Giles Foden

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

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

- Giles Foden

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.

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.

- Giles Foden

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

- Giles Foden

In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.

In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.

- Giles Foden

The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.

The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.

- Giles Foden

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

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

- Giles Foden

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.

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.

- Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

- Giles Foden

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