Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

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

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

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.

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.

Radio is the death and life of Africa.