There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

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

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.

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.

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

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