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The recent passing away of the first black president and for that matter the first president of post-apartheid South Africa, Nelson Mandela, put the spotlight on that country. In all the stories that floated on the sea of noises, praises, and total absurdities, one thing was clear: there has been darker days in South Africa's past. A time when some people believed that the black man was inferior to the white man and the two could not, in no way, mix. That it was imperative that the former is subjugated to serve the latter. This policy of 'apartness' was supported by developed and democratised countries of the West, most of whose leaders were at this funeral to share the pain of South Africans - a pain they had justified and supported. And again, those who thought they were wiser than every other person took the opportunity to advise African leaders, the very same leaders they had terrorised and destroyed, the very same countries they plunder and plunge into war and confl...