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

Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand thef….

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective..

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

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….

Radio is the death and life of Africa..

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

Socialism is always wrong..

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent..

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conun….

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 o….

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

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

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

The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts..

Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how mu….

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

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny..

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled..

The 'Cheetah Generation' refers to the new and angry generation of young African graduates and professionals, who look at African issues and problems….

The only good dictator is a dead one..