Let’s work on healing wounds that our fathers inflicted on us

 Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

 Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala poses at her home in Potomac, Maryland, near Washington DC, as she was confirmed the first woman and first African leader of the beleaguered World Trade Organisation. Africa has always depended on her women. Let us lead, then. PHOTO | ERIC BARADAT | AFP

So what would a neopan-Africanist future look like? I gave PLO Lumumba a hard time last I wrote, out of respect. We are done with the wounds of our fathers, now we need to heal the wounds our fathers dealt us.

In case I wasn’t clear about that, I want to make it clear now: We are the ones we need to be dealing with, first and foremost.