In our African societies, those who work tirelessly inspire respect. Those who think, observe or meditate arouse suspicion. Yet no great nation has ever been built without an elite of thinkers. Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile industry, had understood this more than a century ago: ideas are more valuable than muscles. For us, this truth is still suspect. The man who did nothing. One day, Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, presented to a journalist the highest paid employee of his factory.
The African and the man who “does nothing” or when thinking becomes a subversive act (by Chérif Salif Sy)
