There is not much in the muddled air to be so excited about. Appointing an African as a second in command in the world body leaves space for more practical solutions to the obdurate problems confronting the continent.

The spread of poverty, corruption, disease, hunger, etcetera are circled around leadership failures in Africa which I think the United Nations must urgently create forum to tackle through African-based solutions. The newafricaforum.com hopes to contribute to changing this norm.