"Africa is rich. But it is rich not only of minerals (coltan, diamonds, cassiterite) but also of people and their stories. They have a lot of stories to tell and they tell them with a smile on the face. However brutal and cruel a story is they tell it with a smile. I interpret it as a kind of distance to what they tell us. It's a distance we also ought to learn. The Europeans don't smile so often as Africans. Maybe it is because we forgot genocides, wars, atrocities we experienced long time ago? Maybe we need genocides to keep us smiling?"
From an interview with Nkunda Obutu.
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