Connect with us

Global Issues

Democracy, Merely An Idea For African Leaders.

Published

on

Democracy Merely An Idea For African Leaders

Democracy, Merely An Idea For African Leaders

When a new age was dawn in the world, when many nations of the earth took up an experimental theory from the West, a theory called democracy, they knew that they were ready to accept change. For most African nations including the arab nations, it sounded funny, it felt funny. They never understood the principles nor the teachings of democracy, the leaders liked the “idea” as they often referred to it, but the people wanted the “idea” to be their reality.

Today after so many years, the continent of Africa keep falling behind in all standard of development, technological or otherwise. The leaders of African nations only think of their own personal achievements, their own goals and their own survival. None cares about the nation, the people that they lead, to them, they don’t matter. As it stands today in Africa, nothing is done with the consideration of nation building, citizen development or economic stability in mind. It’s all about POWER and who’s holding it. These people, these leaders in Africa, think and believe democracy is a street fight where the winner takes it all. They forgot the real and only true definition of democracy: A government of the people, by the people and for the people.

We must percevier as one nation, binded by our voice and a singularity of purpose, or we must perish, clinged onto our own self interest. And until African leaders quit seeing democracy as a mere idea, African nations stand the risk of losing contact with development.

Advertisement

 

 

Advertisement

Jeff Okoroafor is a leading member of a new generation of civic advocates for government accountability and democratic change in Nigeria. The Citizen Affairs Initiative is a citizen-driven governance initiative that enhances public awareness on critical issues of service quality in Nigeria. It encourages citizens to proactively seek higher standards from governments and service providers and further establishes new discussions in communities about the standards that citizens should expect and deserve from those they have given their mandates. Jeff is the Managing Director of SetFron Limited, a multimedia development company that is focused on creative and results-driven web, mobile app, and ERP software solutions. He is the co-founder of the African Youths Advancement and Support Initiative (AfriYasi), a non-governmental not-for-profit organisation that provides tertiary education scholarship for young people from low-income homes in Nigeria. He is a Fellow of the Young African Leaders Initiative and the United Nations World Summit Awards. A Strategic Team member of the Bring Back Our Girls movement, and a member of the National Technical Committee on the Establishment and Management of Missing Persons Database in Nigeria. Jeff holds a Bachelor and Postgraduate diploma degrees in Computer Science, and a Certificate in Public Administration from Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, GIMPA.

Continue Reading
Advertisement
Click to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Facebook

Trending Articles