From the "our politicians are just as stupid as yours" file, we have Governor Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano, in northern Nigera. Mr. Shekarau's claim to fame? He's decided he has a very good reason to prevent his citizens from being vaccinated against polio:

Governor Shekarau maintains that Kano state will only allow the polio vaccination exercise to be held if his trusted scientists are proved wrong.

They say that the polio vaccine is in fact a western plot to make African women, in particular Muslims, infertile.

Of course, we all know the real reason Africa is such a basket case is because of colonialism imposed by the great European powers, and the racist imperialistic policies of the United States in the post-WWII decades. Forty years of independence and utterly incompetent political leadership have absolutely nothing to do with it.

Right?