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The National Conference in Benin took its inspiration from the “Etats Generaux” that accompanied the French Revolution of 1789 and it immediately galvanised Francophone West Africa. The autocracies in Niger, Togo, Cote d’Ivoire and Mali all crumbled as they were forced to accept National Conferences that dissolved their existing power structures and crafted new multiparty democracies.
The question today is whether the so-called third wave of democratic transition in West Africa which started in the early 1990s is waning. The greatest challenge that confronted the process of democratic transition was that of ensuring that democratisation was accompanied by the institutionalisation of constitutional rule. Constitutions, it is generally acknowledged, do not in themselves make democracy.
The democracy crisis of the region is linked to its political sociology, that the leaders do not resemble the people. We need to understand that West African citizens have always had a profound commitment to democracy which their leaders have lacked and it is that spirit that has maintained the democracy project alive over the decades as successive leaderships have removed democratic gains placed on the table by citizens.
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