Ghana’s President John Atta Mills, died on Tuesday aged 68. If the gods of democracy exist somewhere out there, then they are sending very mixed signals to African democrats. There is now a nearly-established fact of African politics. The strongmen and dictators not only rule longer (naturally), they also seem to live longer than the […]
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Dictatorship, War, Hunger, Disease Have Messed Up Africa – But Will Also Save The Continent!
What do these four events have in common? •In 1994 Rwanda faced the world’s worst post-World War II genocide. Beginning April 6 through the next 100 days, at least one million people were slaughtered. The majority of them were Tutsi, like the Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) that was fighting the ‘Hutu dominated” (to use the […]
