How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?

Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to drive development.

We don‘t have faith that #freedom works. We have evidence.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.