Dry and sultry.

That's what I felt when I arrived in Africa. Now it's June. Africa's dry season is coming. The rivers are dry. There are only wilderness and desert left. As time goes by, it will get drier and drier, and it will last until September or even October.

This is a continent with a very clear season. There is only dry season and rainy season, and there is no distinction between spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Take a bus from the airport, rush to the destination, go through cities, and drive more and more to remote places, you can see the poverty and backwardness here, as well as...