The AU must not repeat the mistakes of the previous OAU. The continent is so big they may have to divide it into regions and have regional AU offices for Southern Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, West Africa and North Africa perhaps.

BBC: African Union: What are its prospects?

It may make more sense today to divide the business of government not into the efficient and the dignified, but into the efficient and the undignified.

ECONOMIST: A general theory of spin doctors