Kenyan writer who explores China’s links with Africa

By ABENEA NDAGO

In Africa: A Biography of the Continent (1997), John Reader explains that a swarm of Europeans landed on the southern tip of the African Continent because it is a honeycomb of minerals. Geographical forces, which formed our African land mass packed all manner of mineral wealth in Southern Africa and, driven by greed alone, white locusts came to ravage through an inhuman experiment called apartheid.