Africa is poor because she is not free.

If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.

Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

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.

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

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.