By DARLINGTON CHILUBATHE concept of democracy has the advantage of appearing very disarming and gives the impression that it is a people-led system of government that thrives on equity. It does not readily allude to any form of violence, nor does it espouse those revolutionary tenets of overthrowing governments, which are associated with socialist and communist schools. Instead, democracy innocuously fronts the idea that confrontation should be conducted within institutions of government such as parliament; that disagreements can be resolved at the ballot, swiftly avoiding much mention of usurping existing governing structures outside electoral frameworks. Internationally, only socialism was mainly exported as an alternative form of government until 1989 when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which was the home of socialism, collapsed. After that, democracy was exported without real challenge to Eastern Europe and Africa, with Zambia and Ghana becoming the first two African nations to embrace democratic governments in the early 1990s. The proxy wars in […]
RETHINKING DEMOCRACY
