It’s time to claim our place in the world —again and for real
A man wears a face mask with a message on that reads "stop coronavirus" written inside a map of Africa, on April 24, 2020 in a street of Abobo, a district of Abidjan. PHOTO | SIA KAMBOU | AFP
Sometimes, I kind of miss Robert Mugabe because of his rather enjoyable invectives against the British.
Sure, he was a frustrated Anglophile, but from the perspective of this frustrated Africanist at least he gave me the comfort of being a man who refused to put the “developed world” on a pedestal. Without being as dramatically insane about it as Idi Amin Dada.