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.
He said he's, quote unquote, entitled to five seats, called Greg Abbott, who was totally supine, said, yes, sir, and gave him the five seats in Texas to change the maps.
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?