Former President Rupiah Banda of Zambia, a hero to African democrats
This is why what happened in Zambia on the 20th of September, 2011, is such a seismic event that Africans must rejoice and applaud former President Rupiah Banda. With this show of statesmanship, humility and appreciation of being honored to serve his people, I believe that the board of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation should seriously look at former President Rupiah Banda, to receive the next $5 million Mo Ibrahim award. He certainly deserves it.
When good things happen in Africa, we never hear about it. But if it were political uprising, a coup d'etat, war or disease, there would be major stories about it. I have tried to see how long it would take for the Western media to continue to ignore the seismic political change in Africa's march to democracy that occurred last week in Zambia. Alas, I was not disappointed for no major Western media has paid the kind of attention it would have if negative events had occurred there.
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