The events unfolding in Libya reflect a leadership crisis across the continent marked by incompetence and mental constipation of African leaders. Mental constipation leads to myopic leaders across Africa who fail to understand that they are the problem because they chose the wrong profession or promoted themselves (via coups d’état, fraud, etc.) to a leadership position for which they are highly incompetent and ill-prepared. Therefore, besides oppressing their own people, what else could African tyrants do in today’s world, let’s say if slavery was still a legal business as I’m writing this comment?
Believe me, if slavery was legal today, African tyrants would sell their own people by millions, not to the highest bidder as their ancestors did for several centuries in the past, but to any merchant in need of slave labor. As an African, I am serious about this statement for two reasons: (1) African tyrants (most of whom are those Sub-Saharan dictators I simply call "the Mad Basenjis of Black Africa") hate their own people whom they fear to death and, therefore, oppress. We simply have to look at the atrocities they have committed against their own people during the last 50+ years since the continent became independent; (2) All African tyrants are thieves and they would sell anything to keep up with the African joneses, i.e., the other thieves that proliferate on the African continent. They would use the power of modern weaponry to make wars and catch slaves for export. Because they fear and hate their own people, African tyrants would (as they always do with stolen public funds) transfer the proceeds of the slave trade offshore, to keep them out of reach! This is the tragedy of a continent where incompetence and mental constipation of its leaders have literally enslaved hundreds of millions and locked them into perennial misery.

Surely, there are some Western leaders who eagerly flocked to Libya under Kaddaffi? Where are the pictures of Prince Andrew, King of York's visit to Libya in 2007? Why did France allow Kaddafi to visit Sarkozy in Paris in 2007, and where are the pictures to prove it? Simply put, why are all these pictures of African leaders? Where are the pictures of European leaders consorting with Kadaffi? Elizabeth Dickinson is either oblivious to Sarkozy et al's hypocrisy or she is deliberately ignoring the West's complicity with Kaddaffi.

He also supported violence in other countries, including funding and arming the Irish Republican Army.

So why is the brutality that he commits against his own people more important than the evil that he promoted worldwide all these years?

How did this article avoid mentioning Chad?

The events unfolding in Libya reflect a leadership Reiki crisis across the continent marked by incompetence and mental constipation of African leaders.