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

Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.

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

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

Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.

Radio is the death and life of Africa.

The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.