Historians Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper caution, moreover, against the false image of Africa as a supine continent populated with isolated tribes.
How Mr Kim handles this will show whether he understands the importance of growth, has a sensible idea of the bank's role in supporting it—and is a strong leader or a supine one.
Sitting day after day supine in a rigid chair and infinitely removed from life staring at the tip of a steeple through the trees, trying to separate, definitely and for all time, the knowable from the unknowable?