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.

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.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

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.

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

Men weren’t really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

Yeah, like Bizarro Superman, Superman's exact opposite, who lives in the backwards Bizarro world. Up is down, down is up, he says hello when he leaves, goodbye when he arrives.

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

There may well be a few extremists out there somewhere calling for a militant, women-only utopia, but why should this be the definition of 'feminist' when it's already the definition of 'silly'?

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?