Africa’s post-1980 reckoning

Africa is not at a crossroads; it is at a reckoning. Sixty eight years after the first flag of independence was hoisted in Ghana in 1957, the continent remains shackled, not by colonial masters, but by the calcified grip of gerontocracy.

Liberation heroes who once embodied sacrifice now parade as if time itself were their servant, clinging to power with the arrogance of immortality.

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