Speak Swahili, Dammit!

Well then! How do you put pen to paper on such a thing as your life? You don't. You say, I'll do it sometime in the future. Why? Oh, 'cause my kids would like to know about my past. Would they? Doubts assail you. Why on earth should they want to know? My life has not been a signpost to success or achievement. It can't profitably guide them. Maybe they'd be better of striking out into "Terra Ingognito" on their own. Then, I think, how can a generation move beyond the mistakes and sins of their forebears, unless they know of these sins and mistakes? So, I sat down and began to write. Somewhere I got an inspiration - I would call the book by a ridiculous title - "Speak Swahili, Dammit!"

Speak Swahili, Dammit!