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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.

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Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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