By BOB WEKESAMore by this AuthorAt least two global events with significance for Africa occur early every year. This is followed by the African Union heads of state and government gathering in Addis Ababa at the end of January. Consider, for instance, the African Union reform agenda being championed by new AU rotational chairman, Paul Kagame. One of the rubrics of the reform proposition is that the AU, and by extension African countries, should be self-financing and independent. Within the short duration, African leaders would be at Davos pleading for assistance, begging bowl in hand.

Source: Daily Nation February 03, 2018 21:11 UTC