Africa’s old men
I haven’t checked the maths but here’s something interesting sent in to us from a subscriber:
AFRICA
Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe) age 86
Hosni Mubarak (Egypt) age 82
Hifikepunye Pohamba (Namibia) age 74
Rupiah Banda (Zambia) age 73
Mwai Kibaki (Kenya) age 71
Colonel Gaddafi (Libya) age 68
Jacob Zuma (South Africa) age 68
Ian Khama (Botswana) age 57
______________________________Average: 72.4
______________________________THE FIRST WORLD
Barrack Obama (USA) age 48
David Cameron (UK) age 43
Dimitri Medvedev (Russia) age 45
Stephen Harper (Canada) age 51
Kevin Rudd (Australia) age 53
Nicolas Sarkozy (France) age 55
Luis Zapatero (Spain) age 49
Jose Socrates (Portugal) age 53
______________________________Average: 49.6
______________________________DIFFERENCE: 22.8
Tuesday, June 29th 2010 at 12:27 pm
[...] Africa's old men: “I haven’t checked the maths but here’s something interesting sent in to us from a subscriber: Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe) age 86, Hosni Mubarak (Egypt) age 82, Hifikepunye Pohamba (Namibia) age 74, Rupiah Banda (Zambia) age 73, Mwai Kibaki (Kenya) age 71…” [...]
Wednesday, June 30th 2010 at 6:34 am
No wonder why the power sharing agreement in Zimbabwe is not working.In some of these things we ought to count on generatoon gap amoung our leaders.
Tuesday, August 3rd 2010 at 3:48 pm
[...] couple of weeks ago I published a blog about Africa’s Old Men and how they insist in staying in power for so long. In a print publication we re-published this [...]