Time for leaders to listen to youth

Here is a new wind of change blowing across Africa, almost 65 years after British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan warned white colonialists that national consciousness would grow, "whether we like it or not."

Those changes would usher in a gradual end to the empire, the end of white minority rule and, finally, a new era of democracy across the continent.

Now, though, after repeated looting and bloodletting has hobbled Africa's march to prosperity, there is an angry young tune billowing up among the moribund governments of old men.