Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

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

The 'Cheetah Generation' refers to the new and angry generation of young African graduates and professionals, who look at African issues and problems from a totally different and unique perspective.

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

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

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

Africa is poor because she is not free.

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

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

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

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

In life your rewards come from the gifts you give to others.

And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

I am not an expert in medical field.

Hello, freaky peoples!

Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

Faith journeys are never simply intellectual exercises.

You defeat defeatism with confidence.