Nigeria, March 24 -- Curses and magical beliefs are woven together in African politics. A study found out that virtually all African leaders come to power emboldened by beliefs in local magical spells. Francisco Macias Nguema, the first president of Equatorial Guinea from the time of the country's independence in 1968 till 1979, when he was overthrown, was a perfect fit of this. A strongman and one of the most brutal dictators in human history, Nguema reportedly killed between 20,000 and 80,000 of the total Guinean population of about 300,000 people. This led to his country being nicknamed the Dachau of Africa. The Dachau Concentration Camp, built by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany in March, 1933, is located in the medieval town of Dachau in ...