Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.

Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.

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

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.

Radio is the death and life of Africa.

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.