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Kofi Anan delivering the fifth Nelson Mandela lecture stated:

Africans must guard against a pernicious, self-destructive form of racism - that unites citizens to rise up and expel tyrannical rulers who are white, but to excuse tyrannical rulers who are black...Leaders must ensure that the rules are respected, that they protect the rights and property of individual citizens. Leaders must also hold themselves to the same rules, the same restraints, never above them,

Mutumwa D. Mawere asks:

Could it be that Kofi Annan, like many of us, was so scared of what he would do after his tenure at the UN that he forgot to use his powerful position to empower his fellow Africans? Could he not have found sanctuary in uniquely African-conceived, structured and financed ideas instead of becoming a spokesman for ideas that may well be his, but are financed by Gates and Rockefeller money?