Personally and in my opinion - Africa's cultures, creatives, designers , artists , financial processes - are some of the oldest and in some cases the best world wide.
So this is just a question? - Why does it seem that most people living on other continents feel Africa is still constantly arriving?
To my mind this concept is complete balderdash, bulldust and poppycock really!!!.
Africa is and always has been a giant.
yes, some of us in Africa are still arriving, emerging, trying to gain notoriety. Africa the colossus, stands shoulder to shoulder to the rest of the planet. It is definitely not the youngest kid on the block. Africa has in some cases had its cultures forcibly removed, to end up influencing many things in the Western and Eastern world, fact.
So for me - Africa is not arriving or emerging somehow out the shadows. Its arrived, its always been here from long ago and has quietly to my mind, respectfully just awaited an introduction. As all entities with dignity do. As any old wise person does whilst the youngsters are noisily ignoring them.
Africas highways , byways, back roads and misty mountains all have deep ubuntu. Its time to drop the tag of emerging and speak as it really is, Arrived and alive.
