December 27, 2013
By
Alex Njeru
The face of tyranny is changing on the African continent. Sure enough we might have fewer; Mobutu’s, Bokasa’s, Babaginda’s, Moi’s Gadhafi’s and other men synonymous with despotism at the helm of African Seats of power, but that does not mean that despotism is long dead and buried in Africa. Indeed reducing tyranny and despotism to the single face that seats on the seat that perpetuates it could be the greatest folly to befall the war on against it.
Despotism and tyranny is insidious, it did not and cannot die with the attrition; natural or otherwise of Bocas’, Mobutu, Gadhafi and their peers. Africa’s tyranny is not a snake that you can kill by hitting the head no more, it is a hydra with many heads, in fact tyranny in Africa may no longer have a face but its insidious effects are here, are lingering longer for all to see. The rule book on tyrants and tyranny might as well have to change.
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