African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.
Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
Africa is poor because she is not free.
Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.
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.