A person who has not secured a place on the floor should not begin to look for a mat. - Chinua Achebe

A Conrad student informed me in Scotland that Africa is merely a setting for the disintegration of the mind of Mr. Kurtz. Which is partly the point. Africa as setting and backdrop which eliminates the African as human factor. Africa as a metaphysical battlefield devoid of all recognizable humanity, into which the wandering European enters at his peril.

My weapon is literature

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.