OLDER readers will doubtless remember Al Venter’s regular TV documentaries on Africa’s numerous post-independence wars. Al’s career as a freelance journalist began in the 1960s, and he was still at it as an octogenarian in 2021! He now lives in London. Al and I have kept in touch over the years, and he recently sent me his latest book, Takka Takka Bom Bom (the Swahili onomatopoeic name for a machine gun) subtitled A South African war correspondent’s.
