It gives me great pleasure to be at this little-publicized, but otherwise, momentous, event. I say “little publicized” because the Young African Leaders Initiative is a program that the press ought to have devoted a fair proportion of its reporting space to covering, but which has so far, and for reasons yet to be established, been given scant attention. The wider public ought to have been regularly updated on discussions taking place at different sessions. Alas, I, as a member of the wider … [Read more...]