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

The only good dictator is a dead one.

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

Socialism is always wrong.

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

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every 'educated' African who wants to be rich - and there is nothing wrong with wanting to be rich - heads straight into government or politics.