i'lljust give you the quote from the late, great nigerian novelist, chinua achebe, who suggests thatprejudices and begins to look at africa not through a haze of distortions and cheap mystification, but quite simply as a continent of people, not angels, but not rudimentary souls either." i mean, you were a student at cambridge, you won a place in 1977. you left after 2—3 years because, you said, you just didn't fit in and felt that you'd experienced racism, and so on. i mean, how much progress do you think there has been from the time when you were at cambridge to getting to this point that chinua achebe now describes? i think there has been a lot of progress, zeinab. you're talking about nearly half a century — from the late �*70s until where we are now — and that's quite a chunk of time. so, when i look back, i think if i were 20 years old today, i would have a very different life trajectory to the one i had, so i think that's fabulous. but how many of us end up in cambridge? how many of us african people end up at university, even? it's a tiny percentage. so, when i look back at t