Elections: A costly 5-year mistake?

Asked what came to their minds when they heard the word Africa, Curtis Keim in Mistaking Africa, says his students came up with coup, poverty, ignorance, drought, famine, tragedy and tribalism.

Mr Keim, an American professor of history and political science, argues that Africa has mistakenly been thought of as a primitive place "full of trouble and wild animals and in need of help." This state of horror is occasionally supplanted by images of a wild safari, a warrior and a hut.