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Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
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Allan Poe
Detectives
Fiction
Detective
Edgar
Existed
Poe
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Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.
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Dialogue
Beginnings
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The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.
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Corpses
Define
Littered
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Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.
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Add
British
International
Outlook
Peers
Cultural
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My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.
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Economist
Small Town
Agricultural
Border
Posted
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Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.
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Tribes
Produces
Suffer
Tribe
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The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
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Forgiveness
Interpretation
Patient
Threatened
Nearest
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In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.
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Linked
Terrorism
Governments
Successive
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My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.
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Travel
Agriculture
Landscape
Rural Areas
Area
Bit
Round
Remote
Rural
Worked
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An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.
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Book
Determination
Honesty
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To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.
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Epic
Realise
Rival
Sweep
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I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.
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Tinkering
Electronic
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From 1971 to 1993 my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.
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Country
Numbers
Uganda
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From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.
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Ethiopia
Nigeria
Uganda
African
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I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.
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Favourite
France
Restaurants
Squares
Village
Meal
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It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.
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Borders
Colour
Definitive
Identities
River
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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.
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Ordinary
Owner
Irrespective
Long History
Shop
Rightly
Safely
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I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the dust as you bump along in a Land-Rover. I go back there often.
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Dust
Smell
Uganda
Love Back Go
African
Bump
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The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.
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Birth
Luke
Matthew
Time Start Long
Time Long Start
Inventive
Search
Tale
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Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all national boundaries are quaint curiosities.
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Boundaries
Late
Path
Quaint
David
Curiosities
Writers
Foster
Generation
Powers
Shown
Wallace
Whom
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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.
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Gold
Hills
Substance
Gotta
Meanings
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Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences.
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Apprenticeship
Joyce
Standing
Africa
African
Alongside
Authors
Works
Literary
Graham
Influences
Joseph
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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.
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Civil Liberties
Terrorism
Civil
Invest
Gesture
Liberties
Proper
Safeguards
Transnational
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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.
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Appointments
Communicate
Hiding
Physics
Further
Suppose
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