When Intervention flashed back to Nelson Mandela’s handling of questions at a New York outing in 2013, the assumption was that he was the ultimate. Now, there is something equally hot from Angelique Kidjo, the Beneniose Africanist musician interviewed recently on CNN. She is a power stud in framing the narrative, saying that Every music that we do today comes from Africa . She says so perfectly that she cannot be summarised without missing out something. She shows conclusively the role of popular culture in terms of getting out of the ‘African condition’ :