Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.
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Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.
It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.
Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.
If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war.
The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.
Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world.
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.
Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.
The enemies of peace have not disappeared.
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