Land and its acquisition being a hot topic in the media today, this book comes as another reminder of the rights of those who originally owned the lands. As the author says, ‘For thousands of years the black people thrived in the jungles, walking barefoot, wearing a loincloth and eating fruits and leaves. Civilization brought in roads and railways, buildings and bridges … trees turned into logs, mountains were blasted into stone chips and limestone, … soon the jungle vanished into thin air along with the monkeys, squirrels and birds, leaving only stumps of trees, young saplings and thorny bushes to barely hide the naked body of mother earth from the piercing sun and rain under the open sky.’
August 2015, volume 39, No 8