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.

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

The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.

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

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

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.

The only good dictator is a dead one.