> News >> OPINION A reality check for Africa’s leadersBY BASHIR GOTH 24 January 2006 A SOMALI anecdote says that a mother couldn’t find anything to cook for her children for dinner so she put strange looking stones in a pot, added water and spices and placed it on the stove. She then started telling stories and singing lullabies to the children.The water gurgling in the pot and the smell of the spices had given the child" />