 I would go and give a talk on against the war in Vietnam and I would give a talk against nuclear energy and there was Stephen. Stephen always seemed to be present. If there was a big rally in Albuquerque where thousands of people came, Stephen, then we'd do something with some of his friends and like Occupy the American Embassy and get himself arrested. So it's a good start to a career that has been going on for 42 years. But what I do know, he knows how to communicate and that is really important because many academics do not know how to communicate and Stephen really does know how to communicate and he should congratulate him on that. I think I've spoken enough. Professor Chan. So this is a book about complexity. I've tried to write it in a simple and as direct a fashion as possible. But when we look at politics these days, the way the media works, we can be forgiven perhaps for looking at everything in terms of personality. We identify America with Barack Obama. We identify the politics of this country with the leading figures of the coalition. Cameron, Clegg, Osborne, etc. But we tend to have personified the politics of Southern Africa in terms of cut out figures. And what I've tried to do is to turn them from cut out figures and to give them the same complexity that we would give the leaders of our own countries here in the West. What a lot of people don't realize is just how interconnected are the countries in Southern Africa. And in my new book, what I've tried to do is to take three countries in particular. At South Africa and Zimbabwe and Zambia, they run in a straight line going up the spine of Southern Africa. And they were interconnected even from the very first colonial days in the days of Cecil Rhodes. The point of departure for my book was set in the 1980s. At that point in time, South Africa was still very much underneath apartheid. At that point of time, what you had were exile groups struggling to overcome the legacy of apartheid. You had the ANC, their exile headquarters, in Lusaka, Zambia. You had Swapo, the representatives of the Namibian people. They also had exile headquarters in Lusaka. Before the independence of Zimbabwe, then one of the two great liberation movements that fought for independence and majority rule in Zimbabwe was also stationed in Zambia. So I lived in Zambia during that time throughout the 1980s and came to know many of these exiled liberation group members and their leaderships. I was able to watch with great interest as one by one these countries gained majority rule and independence of a legitimate sort. And these people who had been in exile went back to become the leaders of governments. What I've always been interested in is the interconnectedness that continued but developed and which changed over the years so that the kinds of relationships that were formed in exile had to change as their countries became voofledged states in the international environment. And the centerpiece of the book, I think, is an effort to analyze the relationship between Tabo and Becky, the president of South Africa, and Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe. The mediation that lasted for some years led by Tabo and Becky to try to sort out the problems in Zimbabwe. Though that effort has often been dismissed as soft diplomacy, ineffectual diplomacy, there's never been interrogated. And what I've tried to do is to uncover and to describe for readers the intellectual flesh, the intellectual detail, the often mistaken intellectual foundations of that relationship. And to try to give, as it were, a degree of human flesh and human flesh and blood, human vivacity, even of greatly imperfect human vivacity to those two players. And at the same time to try to turn the opposition leaders in Tabo and Mugabe, also from a one-dimensional, caricaturized figure into somebody who has given his own full quota of complexity. So what I wanted to do in this book was to write, as it were, a tapestry of these three countries, but particularly South Africa and Zimbabwe, and describe and analyze how they've developed over the years from the days of liberation right through the complexities of today.