Friday, January 21, 2011

"Africa Must Make Tough Choices to Build Democracy"


Below are my comments, knowing that in the end we will get most of it wrong anyway. The future always has the last laugh.

Governance: Contrary to Mr Haddad's views, I do not think governance went away. It was just done badly, at least in Africa where it was equated with elections and personalised scrutiny of individual leaders.

Little was done to build democratic institutions such as political party structures so we have returned to ethnic politics and shambolic elections.

See full Article.