What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.
Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.
There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.
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.
The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.
Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.