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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
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Average: 72.4
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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
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Average: 49.6
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DIFFERENCE: 22.8

This entry was posted on June 29th, 2010 at 8:56 am by Bev Clark and is filed under Governance, Reflections, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 comments to “Africa’s old men”

Comment by Global Voices in English » Africa: Africa’s old men:
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…” [...]
Comment by simangaliso muzira:
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.
Comment by Kubatana.net speaks out from Zimbabwe » Blog Archive » Why Africa’s old men cling to power:
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 [...]