In a consensual democracy, Kwasi Wiredu proposes us to imagine the kind of societies in which the freedom of its citizens is not thinly upheld by the state’s organizing principle, but by a deeply communalized logic that ultimately frames our capacities for individual reason and action.

If race is what forms part of the very explanation for why the relationship between Africans and African Americans and between South Africans and Nigerians ‘is so messed up’, then of what use can race be to remedy the situation?