Alex de Waal

“Killing, and being prepared to send one's own followers to their deaths is an index of seriousness in bargaining.”
― Alex de Waal, The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power

“for the women [sex-workers], all poor and competing in an oversupplied market for sexual services, the ‘choice’ of unprotected sex is simply a financial trade-off between less money today (and the threat of physical violence from a dissatisfied client) and the far-off danger of developing AIDS. this has echoes, too, of the risk of a ‘bad reputation’ weighed by women [in the area] who too rarely insist on condom use to protect themselves.”
― Alex de Waal, AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet