Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Poetry  and Life

On Childhood (1)

Writers and Nations

Seeing and Being

Plato’s Dream

On Childhood (2)

The Romance  of Difficult Times

Photography and Immortality

Hospitality

O, Ye who Invest in Futures

Dramatic Moments in The Encounter between Picasso and African Art

On Childhood (3)

10½ Inclinations

Self-Censorship

One Planet,  One People

London, Our Future City

Musings on Beauty

On Childhood (4)

When Colours Return Home to Light

Form and Content

Healing  the Africa Within

A Time For New Dreams

An Invitation from the Publisher