If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.

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.

Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every 'educated' African who wants to be rich - and there is nothing wrong with wanting to be rich - heads straight into government or politics.

Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.