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

Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.

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

The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.