The Ukimwi Road Quotes

“American bible-belt extraction – contempt for ‘evil African superstitions’ also persists. Yet I, as an agnostic, can see no qualitative difference between believing in witchcraft and the power of the ancestors and believing in the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection, never mind transubstantiation and papal infallibility.”
― Dervla Murphy, The Ukimwi Road: from Kenya to Zimbabwe

“Certainly nobody in the large grubby restaurant 'wanted to know'. My two fellow-diners were truck drivers being eyed hopefully by five adolescent girls in tawdry attire, clustered around the courtyard doorway. 'Two into five doesn't go,' I reflected. But perhaps these two would go into five if their charges were low enough.”
― Dervla Murphy, The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe