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Then there was Mr Mandela. Everybody knew about Mr Mandela and how he had forgiven those who had imprisoned him. They had taken away years and years of his life simply because he wanted justice. They had set him to work in a quarry and his eyes had been permanently damaged by the rock dust. But at last, when he had walked out of the prison on that breathless, luminous day, he had said nothing about revenge or even retribution. He had said that there were more important things to do than to complain about the past, and in time he had shown that he meant this by hundreds of acts of kindness towards those who had treated him so badly. That was the real African way, the tradition that was closest to the heart of Africa. We are all children of Africa, and none of us is better or more important than the other. This is what Africa could say to the world: it could remind it what it is to be human.Alexander McCall Smith
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Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no.Alexander McCall Smith
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Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again.Alexander McCall Smith
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It was easy to make a difference to other people’s lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life.Alexander McCall Smith