They say in Kiswahili, “Hujafa hujaumbika”. This is to say that we can only make our definitive statement about you after you are dead and buried. But it is not just the Swahili people who say this, for this is universal wisdom. That was why 19th century English novelist, Thomas Hardy, gave us the story of Michael Henchard in the tour de force that is The Mayor of Casterbridge.