We have 16 months to renew our political vows. We are at our lowest. The self-inflicted energy crisis and wanton destruction of infrastructure, including cable theft, has landed us with a self-manufactured economic crisis. Countries which have been at the bottom of the food chain for decades, where citizens lost hard-earned savings and pensions, are bouncing back. I studied in one in the Eighties. We used to say Ghana ihard, coconut make soft. Bread was hard to come by, and when it did arrive, people would break out in song — brodo brodo brodo, piled sky high, twice the height of women carrying it on table-size wooden structures. But like the air in a balloon, it would be gone before you finished the cup of “hot”. The name “hot” came about because you were never sure whether what you were drinking was tea, cocoa or coffee. You were sure of one thing — it was hot, even when you prepared it yourself...