I’ve long thought that Africa’s prime challenge is not knowing what the core problem actually is — an identity crisis. It’s probably the most significant legacy of colonialism — the loss of self. If you don’t know what your problem is, any attempt at a solution is vanity. Unless you are really lucky. The result: misplaced leaders (politicians?), metrics (SDGs?), institutions (AU?), and on.

In all fairness, this is not an ‘African problem’ per se. Just part of a long history of global crises now channeled through Trump, Brexit, refugees, Palestine, Panama Papers, Daesh, Venezuela and elsewhere. It’s just that, as an African, I can’t help but watch Africa’s entrenched cultural failures continue to blow such a perfect storm — at great cost for Africans.