Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.
I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.
Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.
Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics of social structure, and of social structure and of individual psychology in situations of conflict.
People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much. . . But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.
I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your own theory. The fact that you end up literally burning twenty-two out of twenty-five books is beside the point.
In hindsight I can see that my love for the arts began by watching my father and his colleagues perform on stage in Jamaica, and running a muck among the exhibits of fabulous Jamaican art at the National Gallery while mum was upstairs curating.