THERE is some truth in the saying that Africa is being manipulated into chaos by some developed country for the good of that foreign state. However, most economic harm, political mayhem and social instability that many African states have suffered have been cause by greed, vanity and lack of patriotism of the leaders of those African states.
Being good orators, these leaders can convincingly defend their despotism with the common but now hackneyed slogan of "The people still love me." They allege that the superpowers, particularly the western ones, are interfering in their countries to look for market for industrial products of those western powers. Moreover, the foreign state has plan to plant stooges who will "lick the boots" of their masters.
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