Alyette was a Belgian woman who had known Africa since her birth. She lost her husband, and had her son and nephew brutalized and murdered by rebel soldiers, yet she still managed to love the land. <…> As I stood there, breaking bamboo snares one by one, our previously harmonious association was punctuated with a heated argument. My friend stood apart from me and very firmly asked what right I had, as an American living in Africa for only fourteen months, to invade the hunting rights of the Africans, since by birth, they owned the country. I kept on breaking traps, but at the same time I could not agree with her more. Africa did belong to the Africans, but I felt that written orders, whether they pertained to man or animals, should still prevail. If I could enforce the written rules of a supposedly protected park and prevent the slaughter of animals, then I should do so. As I continued breaking the bamboo, the reliable and flexible death trap of the last wild game of Africa, Alyette continued to plead her argument. "These men have their right to hunt! It's their country! You have no right to destroy their efforts!"
письмо Луису Лики, 1968
Источник: Georgianne Nienaber, Did Margaret Atwood’s «Saint Dian Fossey» Predict Current Atrocities in Congo? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/georgianne-nienaber/did-margaret-atwoods-sain_b_301686.html — September 29, 2009
