Sorie Tarawally: The wave of democratic governance that swept through Africa in the 1990s – after the
1970s/1980s military rule or draconian One Party political systems – have been largely a sham. It has been pseudo-democracy.
Politicians form political parties along ethnic/regional lines and elections would be covert ethnic wars. Once an ethnic/regional block grabs presidential power in ethnic wars disguised as democratic elections, they intensify their ethnic war administratively – by excluding the ‘enemy tribe’ from the best of government positions; make sure the enemy tribe does not get access to government contracts, and can barely function even in the private sector. That would trigger mass emigration of the cream of intellectuals among the enemy tribe.
The victorious party in power would do very little to improve the livelihoods of ordinary people – in health, in food security, and more so, in quality education that is affordable and accessible. The political and bureaucratic elite would focus on STEALING the people’s money entrusted in their care; enriching themselves, and flaunting their stolen wealth. Education which used to be quality for all in the 1960s would now mean quality education only for the elite in very expensive private schools. It’s like it was in Apartheid South Africa in the educational sector in almost all Negroid Africa today. After schooling locally, the governing elite would send their children to study overseas, not risking their children study in the despoilation of local tertiary-level systems.
After 5 years, political parties whip up the emotions of their tribes for another round of that politicking which I have called COLLECTIVE MADNESS!
And parliamentarians in most Africa? They seem oblivious of the real role of parliaments. In the performance of their oversight duties, they largely appear to be ready to cover up for corrupt bureaucrats and politicians just so they would get their own cut of money stolen from the people.
Do political parties and politicians in Africa really think that their charade of democracy in Africa would be sustainable; that the people would keep on being fooled as their poverty worsens exponentially?
The coup in Guinea is a wake up call to all political parties and politicians in Africa…. Poverty of the majority of people in Africa does not discriminate among tribes or fake political parties.
I pause,
Oswald Hanciles, The Guru.
September 6, 2021
10:45 hours in Freetown, Sierra Leone
