Ross Herbert

As leaders of the G8 meet in Evian, France, African recovery and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) will be prominently on the agenda for the second year in a row.

Recently I heard a story of a judge of a high court who had commented to a colleague that, as a black judge, he considered that the judicial institution wanted to convert him and other black judges into the image of a judge that we had inherited from England. In this way, the Africanism that he could bring to the Bench would be squeezed out of his performance as a judge.