It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.

I think Africa is slowly learning - and painfully - that importance of insisting on responsible leadership. It will come eventually, and we may be impatient and rightly so, because it is not coming fast enough. But that is the way to go.

Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves