Giles Foden
Giles Foden
Giles Fodenis an English author, best known for his novel The Last King of Scotland...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.
Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.
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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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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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In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.
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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.