The Ghanaian Chronicle

The Ghanaian Chronicle in a front page story reports Professor Richard Joseph, a Fellow of African Covenant of the Carter Centre in the United States, as blaming military rulers for stalling the development of democratic practice in Africa. "The role of the African in contributing to the building of democracy on the continent, has been dislocated by military adventurers", he is quoted as saying.

The paper says Prof. Joseph, a professor of Political Science at Emory University in the United States an observer of the 1992 general elections in Ghana, made this observation at a round-table discussion organised in Accra by the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) on: "New Covenant Agenda for Africa.

The discussion brought together the academia, parliamentarians, the media, civil society leaders and the diplomatic community. Prof. Joseph slammed the non-committal approach of some African leaders to democracy, a phenomenon he described as "dangerous" and called on Africans to strengthen and support institutions whose functions impinge on the practice of democratic governance, the Ghanaian Chronicle said