You attributed the line about maniacal gerontocrats to Kwame, when in actual fact it was me who made that assertion.

It is both Selassielive and this Dr Wright that I am having a problem with. Dr Wright reckons that it is because Whites have been playing the role of matador and us Blacks el toro. Such a narrow view ignores the dynamism of Black civilisations, dynamism which continues even now. So, when someone has this view of a static Africa and Whites just coming in and messing about, I stop listening. When they claim that whites are in control in Zimbabwe, as if they could point to Zimbabwe on a map, I stop listening because such people haven't a clue what they are on about. Their links with reality are vague. We are poorer for considering such people as euridite, might as well get Michael Jackson or his mother to write papers too.

He cites Marcus Garvey, Malcom X etc. Great people, I have to say, but we cannot keep recycling them. We have to move on, Africa's future requires our immediate attention. I have come to have a problem with putting people on a pedestal, then not actually doing anything to help Africa.

Too much time is spent on writings, little on actually doing anything.

As for dwelling on ephemera, that seems to be the natural state of mind of your average "Pan-Africanist".