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

Africa is poor because she is not free.

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.

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

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism, and mass slaughter. However, a force is able to dominate because the counterforce is either nonexistent or weak.

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