Notes
The Parapo or Para po is an ethnic cultural and economic organisation that seeks to foster stronger relations among the Yorubas both at home and in the diaspora through fundraising, welfare provisions and the celebration of Yoruba tradition and culture.
See Roberts Citation(2011) and the debate it aroused in London Review of Books, 15 December 2011, on how this slippage from humanitarian intervention to regime change occurred.
Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser's coup in 1952 which removed King Farouk I from power could be seen as the pointer of Africa's immediate future.
The second part, on the Mineral Development Bill and BEE in the South African platinum industry, will appear in the next issue of this journal.