A column on Afrika Day written a week after the 50th anniversary of the founding of the OAU.
First Published in the City Press on June 2, 2013
Afrika as known to the world of 1688
About a week ago, smack dab in the middle of Africa Day, I saw a tweet by a mom sharing how her little girl made an Emperor-has-no-clothes-observation: “why is today Africa Day when every day in Africa is just that”
Let me not to the sensibilities of true nationalists admit impediment, but jingoism is of a by-gone era, and it’s time we left it there…