1. Posted on Friday 3 February 2012 - 12:38

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   Jammeh

   

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   Buya Jammeh, AfricaNews reporter in Dakar, Senegal

   The Nigerian Nobel Prize winner for literature said heads of states who are trying to cling to power suffer the same fate as the dictators who were swept away by the Arab spring. Nigerian's Wole Soyinka cited the example of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, describing both of them as "irremovable octogenarian" who try to hold on to power "when clearly they have already served their time.

   

   ‘But what happens to them to think that if they leave power, the earth will stop spinning," one of the first sub-Saharan Nobel Prize for Literature questioned.
   
   According to the Nobel prize winner; "In the end, those who treat their people as inferior, with their clans, will face the same kind of violence than we have seen in what we have noted in the Arab world."

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1. Posted on Tuesday 07 February 2012 09:40

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   mwrntr

   

   Simon Mwaura
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   True.Very true.African leaders must know that they don't own their countries and the people in them.When your time is gone,it's only prudent that you go home and take care of your grand children. After all you can not expect to continue being relevant to infinity since you were once a darling to your country men.

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