On a recent visit to Santiago, I saw firsthand how Chile has learned some deep lessons of moderation, cooperation and innovation after a disastrous era of political extremism and military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s.
The majority of migrants bound for Italy are fleeing poverty, wars and dictatorships in Nigeria, Eritrea, Sudan and the Gambia.
More than 100,000 refugees have survived the journey and reached Italy in 2016, mainly fleeing war and poverty in Nigeria, and dictatorships in Eritrea and the Gambia.
But the relation between sovereignty and dictatorship changed in the French revolution.
Up until the 1980s, there was a lot of talk of coups and dictatorships in Africa, but at the same time, Franco ruled Spain and the military was in power in Greece.
This is the lesson Tunisia must learn from the legacy of the brutal and corrupt Marcos dictatorship in the Phillipines, which killed, tortured and forcibly disappeared approximately 10,000 victims, and from the Duvaliers in Haiti, and the Fujimoris in Peru.
Together with my brother, I was jailed and tortured during the dictatorship in the early 1970s, and nothing can beat that.
Indeed, it was Nigeria's civil war in the 1960s and then its military dictatorship in the 1980s and '90s that forced Mr. Achebe abroad.
"Any kind of event that involves the rise of the people and the fight against dictatorship in the Muslim world and in the Arab world is in our benefit," said Mr. Karroubi, 72, speaking in Persian from his home, where he is largely isolated.
Mangala Samaraweera, an adviser to President Chandrika Kumaratunga, called Mr. Prabhakaran "a megalomaniac, a cheap third-grade terrorist who wants to come to power and have a fascist dictatorship in the north".
