Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.

Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

Socialism is always wrong.

Radio is the death and life of Africa.