African journalists look back (in anger?) on 2009 in Africa for the BBC website:

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8434108.stm

In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, Zimbabwean filmmaker and columnist Farai Sevenzo looks back at 2009.

What a difference a year makes - 12 little months. Where there are events we think we can predict, we find we cannot see past one month, never mind 12 - or, as has been the fashion this month, 10 whole years because everyone wants to look back on a decade that doesn't mathematically end until this time next year.

But this time last year, where were we?

Read more on the BBC website.