3.) Salim comes from a family of Muslim traders who moved to Africa, where they set up shop and became successful. (Yes? Yes, am I getting this right??) Salim is not ethnically African, just nationally.
To quote V.S. Naipaul's biography on the Nobel Prize site: "Born in Trinidad in 1932, the descendant of indentured labourers shipped from India, this dispossessed child of the Raj has come on a long and marvellous journey." They make it sound so inspiring...
9.) Being "nothing" = not incorporating YOURSELF into the idea of human history. Being "something" = a person like Father Huisman, who sees himself as part of a "historical river's flow"..he collects the relics of Africa to expand human knowledge. It's as though it were a big project he was helping complete.
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