{"id":693,"date":"2026-05-12T11:39:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:39:58","slug":"rule-of-gerontocracy-has-ended-africa-will-no-longer-be-lorded-over-by-moral-rule-of-old-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rule of gerontocracy has ended&#8217;: Africa will no longer be &#8216;lorded over by moral rule of old men&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the sidelines of the Africa Forward Summit at Strathmore University, Fran\u00e7ois Picard is pleased to welcome celebrated historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe. He offers deep insight into a continent in the midst of profound psychological, sociopolitical and economic transformation. Author of The Earthly Community and one of Africa\u2019s leading voices on postcolonial sovereignty, Mr. Mbembe argues that while institutional change is slow-moving,\u00a0 a seismic change is underway: \u201cWhat has ended is the rule of gerontocracy, It has ended in the minds of the people. That is what matters.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the sidelines of the Africa Forward Summit at Strathmore University, Fran\u00e7ois Picard is pleased to welcome celebrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}