Al Venter regards himself an African – a ‘white’ African, but as
much a part of the fascinating and often troubled continent on
which he was born as his Zulu and Swahili speaking contemporaries.
There is no country in Africa that he has not visited. During his
half-century career as a foreign correspondent, working for media
outlets on four continents, he has given his version of unfolding
events from many of them, for, inter alia, Britain’s Jane’s
Information Group, the Daily Express and Daily Mail of London,
United Press International, Geneva’s Interavia, the BBC, SABC, NBC
(radio), as well as scores of magazines. His love for Africa stems
in part from his childhood. At the age of 14 - while on vacation in
what was then still Northern Rhodesia - he hitched-hiked back to
boarding school in Johannesburg in a race with his schoolmates who
travelled by train. And he won. Seven years later, after completing
three-years in the navy, he explored East Africa and ended up in
Mombasa in Kenya and cadged a lift on a freighter to Canada. Then,
after qualifying professionally in London, he travelled overland
through West Africa all the way to London. Along the way he met
many notables – including Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah and the man who
hosted Graham Greene at his derelict hotel in Liberia – then all
but an American colony, where the ‘greenback’ was the official
currency – as well as the great Dr Albert Schweitzer. The author
spent a week at his jungle clinic at Lambarane in Gabon.Venter
includes many of these adventures in this new book. He also delves
into some of his military adventures and has invited several of his
old colleagues to add some of their thoughts to this bundle of
travel, adventure and excitement to create a remarkable insight to
a continent that, though briefly ‘tamed’ by Europe, was never
really subjugated. In that anomaly too, there lies many a stirring
yarn.
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