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African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
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“THE YEAR OF MIRACLES, 1990
A young woman is on a plane coming from the Eastern Mediterranean, and is joined by a man who says, ‘Tell me what’s been happening in the world. I’ve been in the Himalayas for months, and I’ve not seen a newspaper nor heard the news. Thank God.’
‘Well now, let me see’, says she. ‘The Soviet Union has given up communism, the Soviet colonies have given up the Soviet Union. The Berlin Wall is down and Germany is united. In South Africa they have given up apartheid.’
‘Very funny’, says he, ‘and now tell me what has really happened.”
― African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
A young woman is on a plane coming from the Eastern Mediterranean, and is joined by a man who says, ‘Tell me what’s been happening in the world. I’ve been in the Himalayas for months, and I’ve not seen a newspaper nor heard the news. Thank God.’
‘Well now, let me see’, says she. ‘The Soviet Union has given up communism, the Soviet colonies have given up the Soviet Union. The Berlin Wall is down and Germany is united. In South Africa they have given up apartheid.’
‘Very funny’, says he, ‘and now tell me what has really happened.”
― African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
“Myth doesn’t mean something untrue, but a concentration of truth.”
― African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
― African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
“What deep insecurity, what inadequacy, does this insistence on other people’s inferiority conceal?”
― African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
― African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
“It is, I think, almost a law that what one is afraid to say because it will be rejected by the atmosphere of a time, will turn out to be a few years later the most important thing of all.”
― African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
― African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
