When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

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

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

You have to separate the humanitarian impulse from the record of aid itself. We all want to help. Many people would say that it's the moral impulse of the rich to help the poor, but the record of aid has been terrible.

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.