Why Africa is not just ‘poverty or safari with nothing in between’
I loved, admired, enjoyed and devoured this book. Having learnt a sort of history in the short-trousered classrooms of Johannesburg in the 1960s, it has revealed to me just how vast, complex, wondrous, energetic and magical our troubled continent can also be.
This Nigerian author, with a playful pen, a deep passion and more than a dollop of scholarly knowledge has mixed a tangy, heady cocktail of a book. At times uplifting, witty and exuberant, full of his passion for his country and his continent. At times deeply sombre, as he talks of some of the bestial things the colonial occupiers did to the deeply unfortunate indigenous inhabitants...
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