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

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

Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

The only good dictator is a dead one.

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

Radio is the death and life of Africa.