A book belonging to Anya, my sister and has been in the library at home (my mother bookshelf) for a couple of years. I saw it one day, never knew about it or about the author. “The Alchemist, such an interesting title”, I decided to give it a read…your gold is always buried beneath your feet…agh boy.
There is bar joke that I first heard from the prolific South Sudanese author Taban Lo Liyong. A group of native villagers who customarily walked around naked were visited by a Caucasian relief worker. She came bearing devastating news of a disease called AIDS that was decimating the African population. There was an outbreak in…