Confronting the ghosts of warPaul Morris went to Angola in 1987. He was a young soldier who hadbeen conscripted into the South African Defence Force as it waged abrutal bush war against its neighbours. For 25 years Angola was thecountry of Paul’s nightmares. He returned to the country in 2012 -this time he wasn’t a 20-year-old soldier in an army’s armouredbuffel; he was a middle-aged man on a bicycle. He cycled 1500km acrossthe country to witness Angola in peacetime; to enjoy the beauty of thebush and to meet the people who live there. One of the people he metwas Roberto, a Cuban, who had been fighting in Angola against theapartheid army - the meeting with Roberto was the most profound momentof Paul’s life. In Back to Angola, Paul's memoir published in 2014, hewrites about a journey that took him back into the past as well asinto the present.