What Was I Thinking: a Memoir
“THE BRITISH INTRODUCED RUBBER STAMPS AND CARBON PAPER, SO THE BUREAUCRACY IS EXTRAORDINARY. ADD THE CORRUPTION AND THE CHIEFS TO THAT AND YOU HAVE A VERY COMPLICATED MIXTURE. I UNDERSTOOD WHAT THE PEOPLE THERE LIKED AND DIDN’T LIKE WHEN IT CAME TO FOREIGNERS COMING IN.”
DOUGLAS KEAR WAS A Hamilton man who had been one of a group of tourists kidnapped while on a gorilla safari in Africa. This was international news in 1998. Efforts had been made by his family and at diplomatic levels to find... out what was happening, with no success. I knew Africa quite well by then. The British introduced rubber stamps and carbon paper, so the bureaucracy is extraordinary. Add the corruption and the chiefs to that and you have a very complicated mixture. I understood what the people there liked and didn’t like when it came to foreigners coming in.
It was obvious that the people trying to locate Douglas Kear were getting nowhere. No one could even prove whether he was dead or alive.MoreLess
DOUGLAS KEAR WAS A Hamilton man who had been one of a group of tourists kidnapped while on a gorilla safari in Africa. This was international news in 1998. Efforts had been made by his family and at diplomatic levels to find... out what was happening, with no success. I knew Africa quite well by then. The British introduced rubber stamps and carbon paper, so the bureaucracy is extraordinary. Add the corruption and the chiefs to that and you have a very complicated mixture. I understood what the people there liked and didn’t like when it came to foreigners coming in.
It was obvious that the people trying to locate Douglas Kear were getting nowhere. No one could even prove whether he was dead or alive.MoreLess
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