AFRICANS COMMUNICATING AFRICA AT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD
There are moments that do not introduce themselves as historic. They simply fill a room with the right people, pour good conversation over them, and somewhere between the first sentence and the last handshake, the air changes. That is what happened on African Union Day in Accra, and I am still feeling it. We did not come together to debate economic integration. The Horn of Africa and the Sahel were left unmentioned. Geopolitics took a back seat. Instead, we turned to something at once simpler and more disruptive: who owns Africa’s story, and what changes when Africans claim that responsibility with intention? It's an idea that has been nursed for longer than we care to admit, the kind that lingers in midnight talks and thoughtful silences until it insists on a stage. African Union Day gave us that stage. The people who entered were no accident. Telco and fintech innovators who move both money and meaning across Africa. Journalists who have reported from the continent’s farthest re...