After years of French-led anti-terrorist missions in the Sahel region it only gets clearer that African problems need African solutions “Our enemies are many and they stand ready to exploit our every weakness,” but “Neither brutality nor cruelty nor torture will ever bring me to ask for mercy, for I prefer to die with my head unbowed, my faith unshakable and with profound trust in the destiny of my country, rather than live under subjection”. These statements by Kwame Nkrumah and Patrice