1 idle chatter; a long, tedious dispute; a fuss made over nothing.
2 the gathering where a people argues itself toward the truth — the meeting under the tree, now held in the open, online, and out loud.
A Pan-African publication for the generation that refuses to be footnoted.
Development is always described as something Africa is on its way toward, never something it already practises. What happens when a generation stops asking for the door to be opened and builds a different house entirely.
We were handed a map drawn by people who never intended for us to reach the edges of it.
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What this generation was handed — the borders, the debts, the languages, the ambition — and what it intends to do with all of it.
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