As leaders of the G8 meet in Evian, France, African recovery and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) will be prominently on the agenda for the second year in a row.
Recently I heard a story of a judge of a high court who had commented to a colleague that, as a black judge, he considered that the judicial institution wanted to convert him and other black judges into the image of a judge that we had inherited from England. In this way, the Africanism that he could bring to the Bench would be squeezed out of his performance as a judge.