So William and Harry rowed over whose ‘thing’ Africa is. Now tell me the colonial mindset is dead | Nels Abbey

If princes squabbling about jurisdiction over a continent's people and wildlife seems crazy here, imagine how it seems there

Detty December is an annual pilgrimage in which the African diaspora descend on African cities (principally Lagos and Accra) for fun, festivity, culture, business connections and the odd bit of unspeakable debauchery. Pool and beachside parties run from the evening until the sun comes up the next day. Flush the Band Aid poverty porn out of your head: every December, at least, Accra and Lagos are the new Ibiza and Ayia Napa.

As the sun was setting on last year's Detty December, with a festival attended by 50,000 people (including the likes of Dave Chappelle) and headlined by Erykah Badu, the sun was rising on Prince Harry's publicity run for his wildly revealing and score-settling new book, Spare.

Nels Abbey is a writer, broadcaster and former banker. He is the author of the satirical book Think Like a White Man

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