A woefully amateurish piece too easy to pick apart. 

“white supremacist, heteronormative and patriarchal” – With plenty of black (tribal) supremacists on the continent, you have to wonder why black Africans die in their thousands each year trying to reach ‘white supremacist’ Europe. You'll also be hard pressed to find a continent that’s more heteronormative and patriarchal than Africa. 

“African leadership is mediocre” – that’s because Africans are mediocre? 

"why we would even expect strong leadership in the absence of a serious project of epistemic and social re-engineering" – plenty of African cultural traits could be abandoned for its betterment. But no one wants to admit their culture is flawed, like being told to produce less children than you can feed or to save money instead of splurging on (Western) material excesses.

“Pan African realisation of combined potential” - the naive dream that a magical shared experience can unite the most ethnically diverse continent.