Africa isn't home to ungovernable masses, and isn't beholden to some curse of moral bankruptcy that keeps churning out autocratic despots. But but that the dictatorships on the continent are a result of complex historical processes and pawer dynamics. And fueled mostly by global deo politics, or at lea instigated bi glo ad your politics. You look at seven case studies, so you look at somalia during the cold war era, nigerias in barba, algeria, equatorial guinea, post independence, roand under kagami, and libby under azafi. What did you come away feeling was the strongest common thread,