DNA OF AFRICAN DICTATORS In this article, I would like to give an answer to your question about the DNA of African

dictators through practical examples. First and foremost, how would a houseboy, shambaboy or herdman of the rich family head and farmer behave if he woke up one day and found himself the family head, husband of the widow of the late rich husband and father to the children of the deceased rich family head or farmer. All of a sudden this houseboy/shambaboy or herdsman is the head of family, husband, father, uncle and mzee to so many people who used to depend and surround the deceased is unbelievable, shocking and causes paralysis or numbness of body. Believe me or not after 10 years the homestead would be completely different - the widow cum wife of the houseboy/shambaboy or herdsman would have left the homestead and a harlem of wives would have taken over, the beneficiaries of the estate would have been chased away and replaced with those of the houseboy/shamba boy/herdsman. Worst still, if the demise of the rich husband/family head was planned by the houseboy with the widow as a result of having an illicit affair, the story would be abominable. The answer to your question lies in the above scenario. You therefore have a cocktail of traits in a leader who is a murderer, hypocrite, cheat, dishonest, greedy, selfish and ambitious. What can he not do in order to get what he wants or retain what he has already gotten!? The worst trait is the inflated ego to fit in the oversized boots coupled with the low esteem upon realizing that he is where he is fraudulently and illegitimately. It is very ashaming to your inner self and ego to realize that what you called a basin was actually a toilet which you are now using! Your wish could have been bathing in that beautiful basin! You then dread going back to those times of being hopeless, ignorant and a dreg of society. Anyone who is seen, suspected or imagined to have plans even thoughts of taking back the houseboy/shamba boy or herdsman to those times of the rich husband and farmer when the shamba boy was roaming the bush, opening the gate, using the bush as the latrine with ekikokooma or going to the latrine and using the newspaper or cement paper as toilet paper. Just extrapolate the above scenario unto the national scene and you will definitely not miss the African gutter politics of despotism, autocracy, dictatorship and absolute rule. Worse of all is the personality cult of hero worship and creating an idealized and god-like heroic public image. Lastly but not least whoever serves under the houseboy must be as low as a houseboy or be prepared to act as such in the same way he served the deceased rich husband. Professors, doctors, accomplished technocrats have to discard their intellect and act like houseboys in order to serve the Sabahouseboy, Sa-balalo, Saba-shambaboy or saba-kombadish. To me the question is where do these fellas come from and why do we accept them? It is in our DNA to have such low caste, lowly and dregs of society as our

leaders who turn out as absolute rulers or Is it fate or we are paying for our sins? My usual story of the beautiful girly and lawyer comes in handy _________ .................... I will end with reading of the Koran Sura ......... that ............................ over to you and the public. The public is also not without sin. We are fond of courting demagogues just like men fall for prostitutes and women fall for womanizers. They probably do say and act the right things at the right time that attracts the myopic public.