I think we, as a nation, have been traumatised! We need something like a ‘Truth and Reconciliation’ committee to psychoanalyse us, come up with the different strains of mental illness that colonialism, civil war, military leadership and democratic leadership have left us with which, incidentally, we are passing on to our kids albeit modified strains of it.

After the pychoanalysis, then a therapy or therapies should start to expunge negativity or wipe the canvass clean,as it were, then new ideas will have fertile ground to take root and be debated.

I say this because we seem to be going round in a vicious circle. The more things seem to change the more they remain the same. Someone needs to stand up, own up to the mistakes of the past, admit to the likely consequences of those mistakes and give us a road map of how we can heal to move forward.