An oversupply of national sentiment is not the PROBLEM in SOMALIA. The problem is a LACK of it. The problem is an oversupply of sub-sub-clannish attitude.
A COALMINE greets you with only one SENTIMENT, then hammers it: 'This is not a PLACE for PEOPLE. This is not a place for people. This is not a place for people'.
I ALWAYSDRAW from THINGS around me that people around me have gone through... The STORY that could be TAKEN really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
EVEN though we now have the half-century-OLD new CONSTITUTION, there is a popular SENTIMENT of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.
My RECORDS are borderline dance records. They've got a REAL electro-rock HEART and soul, and the VIBE of the sentiment is pop, but there's a lot of people that were like, 'This is a dance RECORD.'
I THINK that one THING about teaching is you're TRYING to communicate your thoughts about a work to a group of people who may or may not SHARE that sentiment. This has forced me to become a LOT more articulate about what I respond to and what I don't respond to in fiction.
There are many people still ASHAMED of their roots because of the negative connotations that COME with being an 'African.' That sentiment exists many places AROUND the WORLD - in England, in the U.S., everywhere.