African time

"It is the time for us to improve. This is the African time and especially the Senegalese time. It is time for us to come back."

She would wake him up in the middle of the night and demand he drive her to hotel meetings with visiting oil executives still on African time.

So it is perhaps fitting that an exhibition opening in London on Friday about his life and legacy features his watch, which was always kept on South African time wherever he traveled in the world as the country’s first black president.

“Even when he traveled abroad his watch remained on South African time which we found hilarious as a family, but that watch is also here on display.”

"Yes it's true Kenyans can be more relaxed about these things but Kenyans are changing… this concept of African time is changing. The pace of development is progressing well and people have many things to do - so we have many things to do in our time."