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

You have to separate the humanitarian impulse from the record of aid itself. We all want to help. Many people would say that it's the moral impulse of the rich to help the poor, but the record of aid has been terrible.

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

When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

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

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.