Many people I know are finding it hard to focus this week, as we weigh up how likely the world is to now end. Yet no such angst has swept East Africa, so far as I know, in what I have quickly realised is a matter of context.
For, growing up in the ordinary, British, public, free-school system, in the last century, we didn’t finish primary school at 11 without having studied the devastation caused to the only two cities ever to be hit with nuclear bombs.
