In some ways this is not surprising. And yet there is more, much more, happening in Africa.
Democracy is a reality in many areas.
Uganda has emerged out of the shadows of successive savage dictators. South Africa has shrugged off its violent apartheid past to shine as a beacon of racial tolerance. And after two decades of war, Eritrea has built a robust and viable economy. South to North, East to West, there is evidence that the recovery from centuries of colonial exploitation and oppression has begun. An African Renaissance is under way.