Keep up with your great works, Mac-Jordan :)

Why should there be an African Spring? Is it because there was a something called an Arab Spring? Would there ever be an American Spring? I hope that should have been the discussion with all these occupy wall street going on. None is talking about it. With all the European economies crushing and crashing they still get time to talk about an African Spring.

What they intend to do is to create a content for their Western audience whose penchant for vile and bloody news from Africa is anything but satiable.

What conditions led to the Arab spring? And let no one tell me that there the mere fact that a president stays in power for a longer time makes him/her a dictator. I’ve already shared my views on that thing we call dictator. A dictator dictates: he controls others and tells them what they should do. Isn’t America as a country a dictator to the world? The names that have been bandied about Museveni and Mugabe is to me funny in all its forms. Whatever the case may be Museveni is using the constitution to stay in power and unless that changes going nothing is going to change. You mention Mugabe. What is it that Mugabe has done that the West want him out? Why would they hate him so much. These are the things we should be thinking of. We need not pretend that the West wants our interest so much so that when they see a bad leader they quickly want to help the citizens. History has taught us that America has worked with the most oppressive governments ever and they still do. They worked and killed Patrice Lumumba but supported Mobutu. They supported Savimbe and made Mandela a terrorist. Think in earnest of these and let’s not think of what they think is good for us.

I hate it when African intellectuals regurgitate the same propagandist news spread by the West. It’s high time we refused to think along their lines. There are so many routes to development. What has actually happened in Libya, or Egypt, or even Tunisia? Just recently the Department of Defense couldn’t account for 2 billion of the 3 billion dollars Iraq gave them for reconstruction.

Let’s be careful in the way we jump to these news media who call themselves BBC, CNN, FOX and what not. They work for a phantom group who make business in times of unrest. Besides, are the conditions the same for a Spring or whatever -ing they call that? They are only sowing the seeds into our heads so that even when there is nothing to demonstrate people would go about creating it and they would descend in suits and cameras to take picture and show to the world telling them ‘these are the blacks, that’s all they can do’.

An African Spring is nonsense.

Well, I do not think people would not fight for more if they deem it necessary. I also disagree with your assertion that West Africans won’t fight because it would jeopardise their “hand-to-mouth” life. I think it’s disrespect to them, what you say. These are people who work harder than anyone I know. Way harder.
I think you are quite on point about the elite in ‘sub-saharan’ Africa, most of whom are comfortable.