Democracy is a value that can be operated in any society. However, we must recognise the difference between culture and democracy.
I will not say West Africa is not ready for democracy. I would rather say that the value attached to democracy by leaders, which shows that they are only after their welfare and not the welfare of the people, is endangering the welfare of democracy in West Africa. The people see democracy as a system that can liberate them from poverty and the state of want.
Are you saying what has happened in Niger Republic is a result of the mismanagement of the people’s welfare? People do not want a democracy that is good for nothing; people don’t want it. Although we, political scientists, say democracy is the best form of government ever known to man, when democracy cannot meet the basic expectation of the people, then the question is: what is the value? The answer they get is what has produced the situation in Niger, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Mali. Once democracy is useless to the people, they will not go out of their way to defend it.
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