The strongman's governing model, on the other hand, requires a degree of polarisation and fear.
His match with McCann in 1890 served as a model for later strongman competitions.
Many civic and religious activists fear that the unseating of Mr. Kaunda in 1991, which appeared to be a move away from the model of African strongman, may end up more a footnote and less a turning point in the history of this country, which won its independence from Britain in 1964.
Kagame, a bush fighter turned strongman leader, is a worrying role model who risks legitimising autocrats in other counties, according to Kouakou.
The model for the civilian strongman in Peru goes back at least to the 1919 election of Augusto B. Leguia, a businessman with a taste for top hats and thoroughbred horses, who served until a coup upended his rule in 1930.
Yet it's just as likely that Raúl, who reportedly idolizes the Chinese and Vietnamese model of state-controlled, strongman-run quasi-capitalism, is devoted to slow, experimental change.
They have this idea that Christ can't come back until they can build a worldwide movement that they call 'invisible' - that's their word - of strongmen, authoritarian leaders on that Hitler-Stalin-Mao model that they are linking together and that they have access, the leader says, with Washington as the capital of a "worldwide spiritual offensive".
With a new constitution and a shift to a parliamentary system in the summer of 2010, observers, especially Americans, hoped Kyrgyzstan might become a model democracy in a region largely run by unsavoury strongmen.
And in Cambodia laws now being considered would have the effect of emasculating judicial independence.Cambodia's strongman, Hun Sen, is known to cast an envious eye at an unlikely role model: Singapore.
Ms Park has taken a keen interest in pushing this revival of a development model that is so closely linked with her father, a military strongman who ruled South Korea for almost two decades.
