In the long arc of multilateral diplomacy, a Caribbean diplomat is traversing African capitals with a message older than any single candidacy: that the institutions built to govern the world must eventually reflect the world as it actually is. Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Guyana's UN ambassador and CARICOM's endorsed candidate for Secretary-General, is courting Africa's 54 member states not merely for votes, but to forge a coalition around the shared conviction that the United Nations has yet to honor its own founding promise of universal representation. Her campaign, unfolding across Accra, Lua