The curse of Africa's leadership

African leaders must be cursed. How else do you explain leaders who do not know when to leave, even when their own people show them the door? Leaders are willing to face humiliation (Gbagbo, Mubarak etc) instead of simply handing over the baton of power to someone else. There was a burial of a 'hero' today, an event that is keenly followed by both friends and opponents of Zanu PF. What has made these funerals interesting is that the party has converted them into a farce. How else do you explain Mr Mugabe's rant against the United Kingdom or is it Gaydom? Surely it shouldn't come as a surprise if you are discussed in the British parliament after all you spent a whole day mobilising people to go and sign a so called anti-sanctions petition aimed at the British. Is a graveside speech incomplete without insulting other people? What is more interesting is the Zanu PF habit of disengaging. If the Commonwealth raises inconvenient facts then get out of the Commonwealth, now SADC is stating the obvious and we already have diatribes aimed at the well-meaning and peace loving people of the region. What I find bizzare is that according to Zanu PF everyone else is wrong except themselves. Only a genius can be in the minority and still be right and genius is not a word to be wasted on Zanu PF.