The continent remains stubbornly tribal. Hutus and Tutsis still slaughter one another for sport. Go to Kenya, where I taught briefly as a young man, and you'll see endless hostility between Kikuyu, Luo, Luhya and Masai. Even South African politics these days have more to do with tribal animosities than ideological differences. Moreover, chaos too often prevails over order.
Warlords hold sway in Somalia, Eritrea, Liberia and Zaire.
Genocidal maniacs have wiped out millions in Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia. The once-shining hopes for Kenya have vanished. Nobody ever ennobled a people with a lie or restored stolen dignity through fraud. Our treatment of Kwanzaa provides a revealing sign of how far we have yet to travel on the road to reconciliation. The white establishment has thrown in with it, not just to cash in on the business, but to patronize black activists and shut them up.