The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil...Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

We know instinctively, just as beekeepers with their bees, that misfortune might overtake us if the important events of our lives were not related to it.

With its present population of around 82m growing by 2m a year, it is poised to overtake Egypt as Africa's second-most-populous country after Nigeria, with around 150m.