Letter to Bill 'Ruro', our Prezzo-at-large who is somewhere in the States

But that's not my problem. I am not interested either in how you made your way to the US and back. I am aware some killjoys have politicised just about everything, it's as though they don't understand the historicity of your US tour: No African leader has received such an honour for 16 years.

That is, assuming the US is a heaven of sorts; it's been a nightmare for many of our people. Even that White House where a banquet was hosted for you was built by slaves-men and women who were shipped out of our land in chains-and forced to till the land under the crack of a whip for 400 years.