Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room.

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In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

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I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I...

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I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had...

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I'll tell you what colonial experience is.

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There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian...

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The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is...

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The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and...

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This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text...

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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian...

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The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and...

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

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In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it...

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The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary...

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Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that,...

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My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like...

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.