Nyayo-footsteps<\/p>\n
\tin Africa I felt: no achievements, no successes, the place
\n\tis only bigger and darker and worse. I began to fantasize that
\n this world was often like a parallel universe, the dark star
\n\timage in my mind, in which everyone existed as a sort of shadow
\n\tcounterpart to someone in the brighter world<\/p>\n
\tGoziba Island: no police, no government people, No taxes. Just in
\n\tthe middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n
Some governments in Africa depended on
\n\tunderdevelopment to survive– bad schools, poor communications, a
\n\tfeeble press, and ragged people.. The leaders needed poverty to
\n\tobtain foreign aid, needed an uneducated and passive populace to
\n\tto keep themselves in office for decades, A great education
\n\tsystem in an open society would produce rivals, competitors, and
\n\tan effective opposition to people who only wanted to cling to power.<\/p>\n
\tThe friction had been necessary, the challenges had made people
\n\tthink harder, the pluralism had forced people to become
\n\tconsiderate. doris lessing the grass is singing r.k narayan jorge
\n\tamado v.s. pritchett shusaku endo naguib mahfouz yasar kemal his
\n\tsense of history was immediate and aggrieved you go away a for a
\n\tlong time and return a different person–you never come all the
\n\tway back. Like Rimbaud you think, I is someone else<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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