So Muammar Gaddafi is no more. But to what extent did he pay with his life less for the torture and oppression for which he was undoubtedly responsible than for his lesser-known empire-building ambitions to create a ‘United States of Africa’?
 
When, Gaddafi helped 45 Africans countries in 1992 to establish the Regional African Satellite Communication Organization (RASCOM), he gave the continent its own satellite – in …