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    Can Africa's brand ambassador please stand up?

    Mutumwa D. Mawere is a columnist for newzimbabwe.com and in this article he looks at the issues surrounding the lack of an indigenous African to speak up eloquently for Africa.

    In raising this question, I am acutely aware that even among Africans, we seem to have lost some compass in terms of what, if any, we stand for as part of the human race.

    We were once colonised in the majority and yes, we were once slaves, but we have come of age. The modern Africa began a journey that we are still traversing even today in 1956 with the independence of Sudan.

    As we continue to interrogate the post-colonial African experience, we should critically address the question of why the African brand seems to have no African ambassadors as if to suggest that no investment has been made by Africa to create a new and confident African that can operate in any mind and market-space.

    The absence of African ambassadors is striking and unmistakable.

    Read the full article http://newzimbabwe.com/pages/mawere90.16849.html

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