Dictators

A dictator is a person invested with supreme authority during a crisis, the regular magistracy being subordinated to him until the crisis was met.
A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power.

Western understanding of the form of ruling is totally different from the form our ancestors were ruling their villages or empires. For African, the way our leaders rule our countries is normal but the problems come when our presidents cannot offer jobs, food, education, etc... to their citizens.

In most cases in the African continent, Europeans and Americans are the ones creating wars and all the disorders in this land of our ancestors and our so called leaders are being made dictators by these two powers through these empty promises.   

In Africa we do not have dictators we never have them but they just rule as their forefathers were ruling their kingdom. It will take time with Africans to do this copy and paste of democracy in the African continent.

Mobutu, Kaddafi, Mugabe could be accused maybe with other crimes instead of accusing them that they were dictators. For Mobutu, he could not take control of his soldiers as he could not pay their sold. Kaddafi was a good leader, his only problem was the practice of this Muslim law (Sharia) in whole the country. And Mugabe him was just greedy. How come I grab farms with the intention of giving to my people but myself I took for myself more than 20 of these farms? For LD Kabila, he was a good president the Republic of Congo can never have. He ruled the country without an international credit and the time he passed on, he was paying soldiers and other public workers.

For me in Africa we do not have dictators but greedy and poor people who came in power with the intention of making money and forget the all nation.