At three-years-old, a South African toddler reads better than 80 percent of the country's schoolchildren who are more than three times her age. Lethukuthula Bhengu, whose reading skills have already made her a TikTok star with nearly a million followers, was named the youngest African "kidfluencer" this year at an annual award held by the US children's TV channel Nickelodeon. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES