"It was a land of almost breathtaking beauty or of savage poverty,
a land of screaming ghosts or of sun-flung possibilities;
a land of inviting warmth or of desperate drought.
How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it,
or living in it.
How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it,
if you have to."
-Alexandra Fuller
Scribbling the Cat: Journeys with an African Soldier
