Annar Cassam

There are some metaphors that are so striking and so unusual that they instantly transform one’s way of thinking about the subject matter. Consider, for example, this saying from China: The women of the world hold up half the sky.

‘Newspapers are more valuable to political prisoners than gold or diamonds, more hungered for than food or tobacco.’ - Nelson Mandela

Alfred Bernard Nobel (1833–96) was a Swedish chemist and engineer who made a fortune through the invention of dynamite, cordite and ballistite, the start of a very successful arms manufacturing business.

All over western Europe, in supermarkets and street-markets, the Christmas/New Year period is marked by the arrival of masses of oranges, tangerines, clementines and mandarins sold at cheap prices and consumed in vast quantities.

The theme and title, 'Nyerere on Nyerere', suggests itself spontaneously when I read these two interviews, interviews which are not very long and in which Nyerere speaks in clear and concentrated form about some of the profound issues that guided his action.

Jonathan Shapiro, or Zapiro, is a well-known and much admired Cape Town cartoonist whose daily cariacatures in S.Africa's major newspapers are widely read all over the country.

‘My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her hometown in Germany; a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza.’

"In this world the follies of the rich pass for wise sayings." John Kenneth Galbraith in the The Culture of Contentment

During her visit, she was also given a prize at a special ceremony at the Palais des Nations to which I and other colleagues from the UN system were invited; in my case, as representative of UNESCO. And it was on this occasion that I first saw and heard Hillary speak in public.