Peter Tabichi’s (pictured) choice for the award of the Global Teacher award for 2019 must have been one of the best news from Africa. There is hunger in Turkana. A cyclone in southern Africa which killed 700 lives and left in its trail monumental destruction to property. These calamities were coming against the background of other bad news from the ‘Dark Continent’ where loss of life and destruction of property has become its middle name.