Thursday, January 7, 2010

Multi Party Democracy in Africa

Politics in Africa is a sport of power and control.
The winning "team" is not incentivized to serve
the common and popular interests because the
winning team did not win using arguments
of principle. They won however a blood sport
is won. The lengths, these days, to which
people in Nigeria, for example, have gone
in order to wield power demonstrates that,
as with Christianity, Democracy is not
proven in certain places. Democracy is about
representation, but except for the Igbo
in Nigeria, all other nationalities have
been ruled by Kings, Theocracy. And yet
we have had no Igbo leader in Democratic
Nigeria, a democracy foisted upon the
theocratic nationalities by the British.
As such, when the Igbo complained that
British Democracy in Nigeria scarcely resembled
their indigenous democracy in Igbo land
a war broke out. The British said that
Democracy in Nigeria was meant to favor
British interests and not that of the
original democracy of Igbo land attaining
the name Biafra.

Today, again, after a "military era"
democracy in Nigeria has become a blood sport.
People do all sorts of things--swear oaths
in graveyards--in order to get power. And so
Democracy, again, is not proven. Again,
the Igbo leaders of culture say, "in Igbo land
we know what Democracy is but this interference
by British Interested Democracy is making things
worse for our people not better." Again
they were put down by the Federal Government.

But... British Interested Democracy did not improve.
It got worse.

What happened next? A guess? A prediction? A prophesy?

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