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I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.

I'm a benevolent dictator.

I've spent quite a bit of time in East Africa.

I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.

When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.

I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat.

I think people believe I'm some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don't much care about that.

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