I think we are all in agreement that Yahya's name should not even come up when the topic is President of the Century. Among all the dictators that we have been blessed with, one will have to be very creative to come up with a West African leader worthy of such a title. Even Kwame Nkrumah does not deserve the honor. Not to discount his contributions during Ghana's struggle for independence but Nkrumah is truly the first African dictator. Granted he envisioned a united Africa before Bob Marley sang about it, Nkrumah turned Ghana into a one party state and named himself president for life, a title Idi Amin would later use. Thomas Sankara's legacy will always be soiled by the fact that his ascension to power was by way of usurpation. If one is not able to come up with a president who really worked for the betterment of the people he led and did not employ the usual paranoiac tactics to hold on to power, any attempts to name ECOWAS President of the Century will be nothing short of picking the best of the worst. Peace! Amat ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------