Africa's Good-Bad-Ugly -People who have left their mark on Africa & the World

Interesting Insights into the lives of People who have touched the African continent.

Africa's Strong Men: Men of the Clenched Fist instead of the Open Hand Blocking the progress of Africa.  Africa, like the rest of the world needs servant leaders instead of men and women who hold on to power, blunder the wealth of nations and suppress the people.

Africa's President-Barack Obama:  When Barack Obama won the elections to become the President of many Africans called him their president.  Africans went crazy, here in Kampala we now have a restaurant called Obama in Kansanga.

Albert Schweitzer:  The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, doctor, theologian, acclaimed organist, philosopher and yet in Africa, his legacy is quite different from the one in the west, here in Africa he is known as a person who had racist tendencies reflective of the times the colonial mindset.

Karen Blixen:  The lovable Baroness best known for her book "Out of Africa" had some interesting views regarding Africans shaped during her time in Africa.  Thousands have read her book, visited her home in Kenya but most do not realize how she regarded Africans.

King Leopold-William Sheppard:  The King and the Son of a Slave - King Leopold and William Sheppard.  A look at the Congo and how two men touched the lives of its people in a different way.  King Leopold who never visited the Congo exploited and killed, William Sheppard gave himself.

Idi Amin - The Little Big Man:   Idi Dada Amin is almost synonymous with Uganda, mention Uganda to a westerner and the first thing you will hear is "Oh, Idi Amin.  He is dead, but his legacy lives on.  Even in Uganda where most of the people were not alive in his time, there is an awareness of him and his rule.

 Alice Auma Lakwena: The warrior priestess who led thousands of Acholi warriors into battle with sticks and stones.  Joseph Kony was her cousin but the two were very different, Alice Lakwena before her death repeatedly asked Joseph Kony to give up his destructive ways.

Who is Joseph Kony?  Profile and Background of Joseph Kony and the Child Soldiers of the Lord's Resistance Army.  Joseph Kony has enslaved thousands into becoming child soldiers, made girls into concubines, displacing millions from their homes in Uganda. Joseph Kony's Mother's dying Wish.

Paul Kagame:  President of Rwanda since 1994, to many he is Mr. Clean of Africa.  A true nationalist who seems to be for all of Rwandans.  There are no potholes in Rwanda, the roads are clean, the police does not ask for bribes, ministers are accountable for their wealth.