On the 11th of February, 1990, at 16:14, I was sitting in a hotel room – our house was being renovated - in Maseru, in front of the telly with my father and siblings. This was the date and time that Nelson Mandela finally walked free. This was an occasion that had significance not just for South Africans but Africans as a whole. The 26 years since that day have been marked with positives, negatives and the blurry areas in between. It is also easy to get caught up in the challenges the country faces, which can be a very dark place. "An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when...