“He realised that the destruction of the forest symbolised the predicament of the entire continent. In a few fleeting decades, Africa had been over taken by its own inherent savagery. The checks that had been placed on it by a century of colonialism had been struck off. Chains perhaps those checks had been, but once freed of them, the peoples of Africa were rushing headlong, with almost suicidal abandon, towards their own destruction.”
Book:A Time to Die
