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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Africa is poor because she is not free.