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Our elders warned us that the man who fetches water with a woven basket should not curse the river when he arrives home thirsty. Yet, the modern African geopolitical strategy consists almost entirely of parading our leaking baskets before the international community, demanding that the river apologise for the holes. We have substituted the hard, uncompromising engineering of statecraft for the intoxicating theatre of grievance. We have mastered the vocabulary of liberation while remaining utterly subservient to the mathematics of extraction.