It tells the story of an African country under the iron-fisted rule of ‘Daddy’, an Iddi Amin-like murderous buffoon. Thus in 1994, as we expounded on colonial theories, a million Tutsi people were massacred by their fellow countrymen in Rwanda. Africa, caught in the midst of colonial theories, romanticism and fatalism, gropes around in conceptual darkness, stuck in a dark reality. This is the time to move past theories of colonialism, to cease mythologising the past, and to reject fatalism about our present. We can refuse to accept “Daddy’s s**t” or continue to embrace it as part of African culture.

Source: Daily Nation May 02, 2020 06:56 UTC