Africa is back in the news, and much of the news is bad, but the point of the book is that Africa possesses a wealth of human and natural resources that exist in Africa and nowhere else in the world. Africa's traditional knowledge is the counter force to Africa's entropy, and the alliance of this knowledge with science could be Africa's great contribution to the twenty-first century. When surveyed through this optic, the continent is neither dark nor irremediable. It is bright with opportunity. It beckons the enquiring mind. Camping with the Prince enlightens and instructs. African science has long been ignored, but Thomas Bass brings to life the struggles the scientists face to get their research recognised throughout the world.