Mr. Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa took a fifth wife yesterday and was seen to be performing a Zulu dance. Apparently this is all normal in Zulu land but Mr. Zuma is no ordinary Zulu. From the bottom of the African continent he should look up and all he will see is poverty, HIV/AIDs, armed conflict, famine, illiteracy, rape of women, teenage pragnancies, uncontrolled diseases like malaria, river blindness, sleeping sickness and on and on and on. About 25% of men in his own country confess to raping at least once. Hundreds of thousands of people are surviving on food aid all across black Africa. Marrying more than once may be acceptable in his society and he surely has the money to feed all his wives and children but other african men do not. It is common for men to desert a wife with six to ten children and take another wife. This leaves the first woman destititute with no way of bringing up her children. The children grow up uneducated and will do anything to survive. This leads to all the other ills affecting the continent. Idi Amin, Bokassa, Mobutu Sese Seko and many other African leaders thought that their position gave them the right to enjoy pleasures of the flesh. Today they are seen as stupid buffoons. Mr. Zuma, you may know how to dance and marry but can you govern?