The worst African dictators of all times, past and present

by Sylvieb | September 6, 2007 at 07:26 am
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Africa has and continues to have its share of dangerous and sometimes crazy dictators. A good example is Idi Amin Dada, a former British army lieutenant who subsequently styled himself as “His Excellency President for Life Field Marshal Al Hadji Dr. Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular”. Then there was also Mobutu of Congo, who forced all television news channels to precede the evening news by an image of him descending through clouds from the heavens. Central African Republic boasted the "emperor" Jean Bedel Bokassa, who it’s rumoured ate the human flesh of his victims. But perhaps, the scariest of them all is Robert Mugabe, who terrorizes Zimbabwe to this very day. Have your say on which African dictator made the most impact, here: http://www.pollsb.com/polls/poll/2036/choose-your-all-time-favorite-crazy-african-dictator 

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Donald George

What About Gen. Sani Abacha Of Nigeria

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Makarius Peter

If  Mugable was not taken white plantations,would have remained as good as mandela  before the whites,he is a dictator because he oppose strongly British and Americans.For the whites no condems to south African  racist regime of  17thC to  early 90's likewise nor blames  for Mobutu bs was their puppet

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Wessen

My dear, Mugebe ihated by the European racists and fall victim to his own fury. He is not a dictator but a freedom fighter in the wrong time. He better resigns. His white dictators in Beritian, USA and threst of th first wold do not tolerate him. If  he is a dictator Ethiopian leadr, friend of western governments is a darling democrat. Sad but true.

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IGNATIUS BUNYASI

Africa has no dictators, but it has rich western countries projects.Developed countries plant leaders and when they turn against them and their rule they term them as dictators.America helped sadam during iraq- iran war,and when sadam refused their oil deals they called him adictator and killed him.America and western world please leave africa alone.You are developed because of riches you stole from africa,don't you have no shame.After cripling africa now you lough at them.

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Sylvieb, I like this story. It's good stuff.

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Riro

Mugabe is most definitely not even among top ten worst Dictators in Africa please.

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screwbiedoo

Hmmm. Makes you shudder. Also always puzzles me why the world boycotted South Africa for racism but overlooked these guys while they were committing genocide...!?

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Makarius Peter

Mugabe is less qualified as a dictator,to the eyes of many africans he seems as a hero,but to  the Europeans he looks like Hitler of Mussolini of

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Munisa Kumino

Ho! What are you talking about. Mugabe is not a dictator. Where are Bush and Blair who turned on full decade into bloodshed and mass klling invading independent nations. We know the white world is already deluded and thinks that hey live in democracy. It is illusion. They have conditioned by a capitalist adehesives in the form of food, lexury, selfish         individualism and first grade ignorance about the world other than their own. It is the west that nurse dictators in Keya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Uganda .... Africa is the projct of the western evil governments and she will be their lucraive project yet for the coming decades. But African of the new generation would not accept the shrewed and cruel racist treatment of their continent. There wi come a time when this norther evils curse they deeds they commitd on ncent people in Africa. Bye the why you pretend that you need opinion on dictatorship. Feedom under the scrutiny of policy camera and eye of big bother is not gaing to be the future for afric. WE do not need their model of numbbin people and ruling their like pet animals. Please donot pretenthat their is freedom of speech in the north. On what issue a citizen make speech. There is no time for free thinking. But you have a lot of flesh things for biggirls and big boys. Europe is a big fat zoo and a nurng home for big and sretched adults.

Therefore, mind your own business and  let Afra suffere and learn from her own mistakes. Nothing good wouldcome from coloniaists, racists, and slave owners.

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kardol frai

All these so called "dictators" are only the product of european interests. They were installed in the head of government by the western world, notably the industrialized states, that are in need of resources ,e. g. petrol, phospat, raw materials and so on. They consider Africa  as a raw material exporter. These cruel, selfish, uneducated and anti-african dictators are ideal in favor of european interests because:

1.They impeach the people to go to school and to be given an adequate education, so due to the lack of  education, people will stay illiterate and won´t represent a danger for these dictators, because they consider this injustice as normal and they won´t  resist.

2. These dictators are so cruel, that they terrorize and oppress their own people to stay in  the government, because they don´t have the sense of patriotism and solidarity with their african continent, the only want to live in luxury and to secure the future of their family

The only solution for this misery is to give all people an education, to expell western groups, white farmers and european enterprises from Africa and to create an african solidarity between african people and countries. When necessary, this targets has to be achieved by the mean of war. And those africans who commits treason toward the african interest should be executed. I know it sounds cruel, but there is no other solution.

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JASPLA

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mzoks

Dictators are bred by either Britain or USA. Look at all the leaders called dictators they all used to blue eyed boys of these two until they fell out only to be called dictators. When you continue to play to their orchaestra yo remain good to them because they benefit from plundering the resources of these countries.

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castro

fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk uuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!! is that wat u want but n'way Mugabe is not a dictator and never will he become one in his and our life time. u mother fuckers hail the president of zim Crd Robert Mugabe

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Awakened

You all need some help!! Dictators they are!!! Ignorance is your downfall, and that of the african continent!

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RoseAnne

Comeon, I am one African who sees Mugaba as a dictator? What kind of hero are you talking about. Mugabe is no different from Amin if not worse. At least Amin hardly went beyond second grade so I would excuse him but Mugabe is a learned man who knows exactly what he is doing. Selfishly turning his almost developed country into trash

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RoseAnne

Africa wont learn if you start defending people like Mugabe

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lekamito1@yahoo.com

Hey every body. Don't tell me that all African dictators came as a result of European interference on Africa in th period of colonialism. I don't want to accept this, because there are some who are thee product of instability of their own problems, like Mengistu H.of Ethiopia. Mugabe is dictatore who even doesn't consider the problem of his people, but protects a dictator who fled from his country. 

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Kisolo

It is true that things in Zimbabwe are really bad, because our people are suffering.  To blame this terrible situation on only President Mugabe is only being one sided.  The British have their own share in this mischief.  Britain must stop its pretence and deal with the problem in Zimbabwe more honestly.  We know that even if there is regime change in Zimbabwe today, and the British have not changed their attitudes towards the black Zimbabwean there will not be much tangible befits to the ordinary people in this country.

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japheth kimutai

Mugabe and others commonly known as dictators by the west are just but their products of selfish interests

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theafrican

if u lived in zim u wouldn't be complemanting him like that. i know becaused i lived there. all these years i saw him turning from a hero to a tyrant. he is no dictator but a murderer, and a corrupt leader.

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Moruf

Robert mugabe is one of the best african dictators, you are talking about bush and blair those white aliens,really i so much hate the white starting from the time of their racial discrimination against blacks.robert mugabe force through them really attack them in his own form of ruling...unlike some other dictator like hmm Anne Mugisha,mobutu sese seko those 2 precisely.

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TaylorS

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