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

To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism, and mass slaughter. However, a force is able to dominate because the counterforce is either nonexistent or weak.

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

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.

Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

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

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