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Compared to Kenyan MPs, Robert Mugabe is a saint

Kenya: Robert Mugabe has been so demonised by the Western world that Africans have also started to sing the same tune. African leaders have been heard to condemn Bob, as he is fondly known, to the extent that they lose sight of their own excesses.

But when you look at the African political landscape you realise that comrade Bob is in good company from Pretoria to Cairo. The guy may have become senile, but he has done much more than all current Kenyan parliamentarians put together.

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