Nigerian's Wole Soyinka cited the example of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe,

describing both of them as "irremovable octogenarian" who try to hold on to power "when clearly they have already served their time.
‘But what happens to them to think that if they leave power, the earth will stop spinning," one of the first sub-Saharan Nobel Prize for Literature questioned.

 According to the Nobel prize winner; "In the end, those who treat their people as inferior, with their clans, will face the same kind of violence than we have seen in what we have noted in the Arab world."