From Dreams Of My Father, “NEVER EMULATE THE WHITE MAN and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. IT WAS INTO MY FATHER’S IMAGE, THE BLACK MAN, SON OF AFRICA, THAT I’D PACKED ALL THE ATTRIBUTES I SOUGHT IN MYSELF..” Charles Taylor – Liberia Sekou Toure – Guinea General Sani Abacha – Nigeria Laurent Kabila – DR Congo Kamuzu Banda – Malawi Robert Mugabe – Zimbabwe Mobutu Sese Seko – [Zaire] Congo Jean-Bedel Bokassa - CAR Idi Amin Dada – Uganda Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier-haiti