Sudanese business mogul-turned-democracy-activist Mo Ibrahim recently announced on his website, “This year, my Foundation withheld our Leadership Award for the third time in six years. This [has] prompted much hand-wringing over the state of Africa and in particular the futility…

Each morning as I traveled to my office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, I drove by a small monument to the 11 people who lost their lives in 1998 when al Qaeda detonated a bomb in a truck parked outside…