Lucky humbled me in his lifetime and again I am humbled on his death, to experience the enormous outpouring of emotion in more than 150 comments left from all over Africa, including Senegal, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Malawi, Namibia, Uganda, Tunisia, Ghana, Angola, the DRC, Congo and Rwanda.

From Europe came messages out of France, Sweden, Germany, the UK and Portugal. Also Central America, China, Canada, the United States and Australia.

From further afield came heartfelt comments from Grenada, Fiji, Belize, St Lucia and the Solomon Islands, and even the tiny Turks & Caicos Islands. The words in all those comments underline the extent to which Lucky united people across the boundaries of language, culture, genre, race, gender and political views.