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.

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

Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.

Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

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

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