Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

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.

What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.

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

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.

Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China.