As we ponder celebrating Africa Day on Monday, from an African bifocal perspective, we need to think about a day when the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is a nightmare of yesterday.
We need to do that so that we can look back into all our surroundings through the dialectical lens of the seminal introduction of a non-African tome in Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.
For those in the townships, it will become a tale of two townships; for those in the villages, it will certainly become a tale of two villages.