So why did he ask 38 African heads of state and government to a jamboree in Nice this week?
What do you bring to the jamboree, darling, huh? Aside from those baby blues and a knife?
That will be in the midst of the annual jamboree at Davos in Switzerland, where global bigwigs gather to chew over world affairs.
AS COPENHAGEN gears up to host the UN climate-change jamboree in December, Denmark is keen to parade its green credentials.
If only, say coppers, recalling a disastrous anti-capitalist jamboree in London ten years ago in which 50 people were hospitalised.
AS this week's jamboree demonstrates, ASEAN countries have devoted time and effort to drawing other countries into the region, rather than pooling their own sovereignty.
At an ANC jamboree in the Eastern Cape on January 10th, a beaming Mr Zuma launched the party's election manifesto, including a promise to tackle corruption within the party.
The Olympics have probably gone past the point of no return, but staging another sporting jamboree so soon, when money is so tight, may look like a luxury too far.
