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

Socialism is always wrong.

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

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.

Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.

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.

Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.