We are masters at waiting…Even for strangers to pay us to save ourselves

African governments, in the spirit of pan-African solidarity, should be able to do more to help in long-suffering places like eastern DRC, and now Sudan.

Photo credit: Joseph Nyagah | Nation Media Group

On November 5, as anxious Americans headed to the polls to decide what to do with Donald Trump (in the end, they elected him president again), something tucked away in a wire story from war-ravaged Sudan struck me profoundly.

A journalist had made it to one of the record 9,470 internally displaced persons (IDP) camps, housing 12 million desperate Sudanese.