Zitat des Tages von Giles Foden:
In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.
Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.
I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.
Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.
The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
At school, I got into the whole CB thing, hiding a transceiver in my study-bedroom with which I'd make appointments to meet girls in town. I wasn't good enough at physics to take it much further than fun, but I suppose there was a need to communicate.
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.
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.
In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance - there's gotta be gold in them thar hills.
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.
