Is Africa an undemocratic continent ruled by autocratic old men who pay lip service to the wishes of the people who elected them?From the US to Uganda,most countries grapple with a democratic deficit. Yet there is a approved insight that Africa lags behind the rest of the world in this most nebulous of political terms. This is despite the fact that millions of people elsewhere in the world live under regimes that can be described as authoritarian, oppressive and undemocratic, or while millions of people within Africa enjoy the benefits of relatively good governance.Former British leader Winston Churchill thought democracy was “the worst form of government,apart from for all the others”. His words lays bare the imperfections of what we call democracy, but also tip at how difficult it is to define. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com