Authoritarian radicals: How Meles and the ‘new breed’ changed Africa
The late Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia. He was one of the quartet of former rebels whom the West in the late 1990s branded “a new breed” of African leaders. Illustration/John Nyagah
Meles Zenawi is the first to die of the quartet of former rebels whom the West in the late 1990s branded “a new breed” of African leaders.
The term suggested they were different in style and substance from the leaders they had overthrown and their seniors on the continent.
