Democracy in Africa
There are those who do not believe the activities in Zimbabwe and prefer to detract instead on the written word.. That is their right. I am not going to write otherwise, although I might ask the writer to not just take one article and place it out of...
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Good guerrillas often make indifferent democrats. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe may be the clearest proof that the very qualities that make an effective insurgent...
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Democracy has taken few steps backwards in Africa. The glorious years were in the 1990s when many nations on the continent went democratic. But in the last few years...
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