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I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.
I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.
It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.
There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.
Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.
South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia.
Now, of course, we know there has been an end to apartheid in South Africa, but what excited me was seeing it in the context of history.
