Tag Archives: Mo Amin

Like Others Before Him, Meles Failed To See That There’s A Smarter Way To Be A Dictator In Africa: The Limits Of The ‘Authoritarian Bargain’ (Part II)

On September 2, 2012, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was buried in the capital Addis Ababa. It was an emotional event, and the high and mighty of Africa all assembled, and messages poured in from all over the world. However, many Ethiopians who hated Zenawi, a man they viewed as an autocrat and dangerous tribalist, […]

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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 […]

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