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Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize acceptance speech. On not winning the Nobel Prize I am standing in a doorway looking through clouds of blowing dust to where I am told there is still uncut forest. Yesterday I drove through miles of stumps, and charred remains of fires where, in '56, there was the most wonderful forest I have ever seen, all now destroyed. People have to eat. They have to get fuel for fires. This is north-west Zimbabwe in the early eighties, and I am visiting a friend who was a teacher in a school in London. He is here "to help Africa," as we put it. He is a gently idealistic soul and what he found in this school shocked him into a depression, from which it was hard to recover. This school is like every other built after Independence...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 05, 2008 (boomark / email).