这始终是找到信息的最佳方法。只是问一个女人，她的眼睛和耳朵睁开，喜欢说话的女人。它总是有效的。问男人没有用。他们只是对其他人和普通人的兴趣不够感兴趣。这就是为什么非洲的真正历史学家一直是祖母，他们想起了血统和随之而来的故事的原因。
(It was always the best way of finding out information; just go and ask a woman who keeps her eyes and ears open and who likes to talk. It always worked. It was no use asking men; they simply were not interested enough in other people and the ordinary doings of people. That is why the real historians of Africa had always been the grandmothers, who remembered the lineage and the stories that went with it.)