Libya, Africa and the Victorians http://www.voltairenet.org/article169129.html

Viewed from Sub-Saharan Africa, the war against Libya has a scent of déjà vu. According to influential Zimbabwean columnist Nathaniel Manheru, the colonial powers (joined by their former US and Canadian colonies, but let down by bankrupt Portugal) are reenacting the partition of Africa, each according to her old habits. Meanwhile Gabon and Egypt, and especially Nigeria and Africa, which endorsed this new crime at the UN Security Council in breach of the African Union resolution, have lost the confidence of their African populations.