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Saviours who emerged during three phases of oppression in Africa

In times of crisis, desperate people tend to turn to those who aspire to become 'saviours'. The likely saviours, using Biblical imagery, struggle to become Moses and lead their people out of mythical Egypt to an equally mythical Canaan.

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