Michela Wrong Quotes

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

What constitutes charm? A presence, a capacity to command attention, an innate conviction of one's own uniqueness, combined, as often as not, with the more manipulative ability of making the interlocu...

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Michela Wrong (born 1961) is a British journalist and author who has written about Africa for over 20 years. She began her career covering European affairs before focusing on Africa, reporting on its Western, Central, and Eastern regions. Wrong worked for Reuters, the BBC, and Financial Times before becoming a freelance writer.

You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven

Bantu Philosophy: People cling to life and are not yet at the stage where they wil fight for the quality of that life. They feel as long as they are surviving, that is enough.

Keep your head down, think small, look after yourself: these constituted the lessons of Leopold. The spirit, once comprehensively crushed, does not recover easily. For seventy-five years, from 1885 to...

There is a graceless human tendency to wish upon others the ills visited upon oneself. Instead of pointing successors towards short cuts, you relish seeing them clambering through identical hoops.

I could see their menfolk patrolling nervously up and down toting sub-machine guns and draped in cartridge belts. They were wearing their trademark sunglasses, those gold rimmed feminine accessories w...

Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.