Sod off, dear. Rome is gloriously ablaze with the flames of your famed bootstraps and personal responsibility, for all the world to see. The empire has fallen and you know not that it has.

It is infuriating how uninformed people can be regarding the true nature of corruption in most African countries. The market woman who has to bribe cops or city council officials just to sell vegetables to feed her family and put her children to school is the loudest advocate for anti-corruption. Corruption is the…

Thank you for saying this. None of us deny that corruption is a problem in our country but the work getting done on the ground by the average man and woman to uproot it goes largely unnoticed. In my family, we were taught from an early age never to bribe a cop. Our parents and extended family elders insisted we…