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

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

Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

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.

Radio is the death and life of Africa.

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.

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