The Four Horsemen Gallop Through the Horn of Africa

".A strange sense of déjà vu hangs over all these stories about hunger in the Horn of Africa. Haven't we been through all this before? Didn't Bob Geldof take care of this problem back in the 1980s by having a bunch of famous rock-'n'-rollers like Sting do benefit concerts for Africa? Didn't Bill Clinton send our boys into downtown Mogadishu in 1993 to fix everything?... The climate in Africa isn't the problem. Drought recurs there periodically, as it does in many places. It is predictable, and can be dealt with. Oklahoma sometimes experiences severe drought, but nobody holds telethons to benefit the starving children of Muskogee." The Four Horsemen Gallop Through the Horn of Africa ".The problem in Africa is - as it has been ever since the departure of the European colonial powers - corrupt, tyrannical, and unaccountable government.All of this can be credited to the legacy of Socialism. When the colonial powers left, Marxism took root in much of Africa, as it did in so many parts of the Third World. And African Socialism was a particularly brutal and despotic strain. With the collapse of worldwide Communism, the countries in question were left with simple brutality and despotism, unfettered by ideology."