Making Africa great again :: Mmegi Online

Africa has for too long been fertile ground for dictators, anarchists and warlords. That is until 2003 when a majority of countries signed the Rome Statute the established the International Criminal Court (ICC). The presence of the ICC made the lives of the aforementioned characters uncomfortable. By withdrawing from the ICC, South Africa and others are taking the continent back to the dark ages of anarchy, chaos and no accountability, writes, BAME PIET

The African history is littered with examples of leaders who had no respect for human rights, rule of law, and the international community. Since the winds of change that swept through Africa in the 1960s, when many African states got their independence from their former European colonial masters, the continent has not enjoyed political stability.

Dictatorships, civil wars, cross border conflicts, as well as rebel movements have dominated the continent’s features. Angola, Mozambique, Great Lakes conflicts, the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Egypt’s one-man rule, military rule in Nigeria in the 1980s and 1990s, and fraudulent elections were some of the things that made Africa a great continent for despots.

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