INVITED to speak at the launch of Datuk K. Rajagobal’s memoirs “Inilah Saya Rajagobal” on Saturday, co-adviser of the publishing house Karangkraf Group, Datuk Nasir Hamzah quoted a famous African dictum.

“When a learned person dies, a library burns down,” said Nasir, quoting the proverb widely attributed to Amadou Hampate Ba, one of the major intellectual and literary figures of twentieth-century Africa.