If Africa is to reclaim its place in the world, it must look not only to size, power, and old.

A state that cannot promptly explain its own decisions loses moral and administrative authority. A people seeking freedom must therefore.

The new politics of African sovereignty and resistance will succeed only if it becomes the new politics of African responsibility..

Decolonizing the administrative architecture will not be easy. Six decades of centralization, corruption, fear, and bureaucratic decay cannot be erased.

The lesson from football is simple but powerful. A serious people must be willing to say, even when it hurts:.