There is a widespread recognition in today’s sub-Saharan Africa that the continent’s earlier leaders, and some of those still in charge, erred by attempting to repeal the fundamental laws of economics, by grabbing wealth for themselves and their clients, and by pretending that their anti-democratic instincts were culturally sanctioned -- that Africans preferred autocracy to real democratic practice. Today there remain a few throwbacks; several contemporary heads of state are still mired in the old ways. But whereas Africans several decades ago accepted misrule, nowadays Africans revile the excesses of past and present leaders and expect their leaders to perform to a global standard.
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