“Most of us struggle in life to maintain the illusion of control, but in Africa that illusion is almost impossible to maintain. I always have the sense that there is no equilibrium, that everything perpetually teeters on the brink of some dramatic change, that society constantly stands poised for some spasm, some tsunami in which you can do nothing but hope to bob up to the surface and not be sucked out into a dark and hungry sea.
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In Africa, you do not view death from the auditorium of life, as a cue. You feel perishable, temporary, transient. You feel mortal. Maybe that is why you seem to live more vividly in Africa”.
Peter Godwin, in “When a crocodile eats the sun”,
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