Are presidents' sons 'taking over' Africa?

"It is strange-but true, for truth is always strange; stranger than fiction", so wrote the 18th century English poet and scholar, Lord Byron in the poem, Don Juan.

Don Juan, in its literal context, means a man who succeeds a [pretty] woman, including going to bed with her irrespective of his [man's] looks.

Which is why it is no longer strange but true that some ex-African presidents' sons are already presidents .And some sitting African presidents' sons are warming up to succeed their fathers; irrespective of neither their leadership qualities nor their respective citizens' wishes - completely, in some cases, disregarding and disrespecting  the principle of  universal adult suffrage.

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