Foreign envoys shut up, we have oil

By PETER WANYONYI
The African villager remains an enigma to the West. Multiple generations of wazungu have tried to awe what colonialists called the ‘native’ with all manner of wonders — miraculous medical cures, flying machines, iron snakes, the works.

But none of that has changed us, though. We are who we were. African leaders, mostly trained overseas, see the wonders of modern civilisation in the West, the good service delivered by appointments based on merit and not tribe, the superb governance that accountability can deliver, and then they go back home to the jua kali way of doing things.