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In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

Not any amount of aid is going to move Africa forward.

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

It is my firm belief that action on the issues that matter for Africa must emerge from within Africa itself.

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.