Kingwa Kamencu

Honoured guests, friends and colleagues,

I’ll begin by quoting Thomas Sankara, former Burkina Faso president and a very notable Pan-African theorist, assassinated at the young age of 38. He said:

Sometimes… I suspect
I have not played this ‘African’ card
well enough
Despite being here a year and some months now
(If you’ve watched Eddy Murphy’s Coming to America, you’ll know what I mean!)

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