Africa has emerged from a season of producing cerebral and charismatic warriors for freedom and aspirations for democratic politics from the sordid wombs of colonial socio-economic neo-genocidal dictatorships.
The momentum has been battered by warts and viruses contracted under colonial victimhood. Horrendous violence against African bodies brewed decades of post-colonial civil wars in ranging from Congo and Sudan; Liberia; Ivory Coast today's South Sudan; partial genocide in Uganda and Burundi to full genocide in Rwanda. Mo Ibrahim's researchers, however, report a growing season of flowers in African peoples smiling to sunlight of good governance.
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