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Africa Struggles For Democratic Deepening

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04-06 00:29
 
 
 
Excellent piece I concur.

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Frederick USA
04-06 00:29
 
 
 
THE QUEST FOR AFRICAN DEMOCRACY Africa cannot achieve this democratic deepening by ostracizing and marginalizing its traditional authorities and institutions. The majority of African people who still live in the rural areas continue to owe allegiance to tra

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MARCUS AMPADU
04-06 01:25
 
 
 
 
Our Chieftaincy Would've To Adjust To... The deepening of our Democracy with emphasis on involving our Chieftaincy could only succeed if our Chiefs would undertand that certain old concepts and perceptions in their System ought to change to meet our expectations of

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G. K. Berko
04-06 13:38
 
 
 
 
Re: THE QUEST FOR AFRICAN DEMOCRACY Absolutely. That will be a good example if only we can try and test that "hybrid of traditional African democracy and Western democracy".

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Pelicles
04-06 15:07
 
 
 
 
 
A SUSTAINABLE DEMOCRACY Thanks GKB & Pelicles for your inputs on my proposal of finding ways to bring our chiefs and the rural half of Ghana into our democratic governance. An increasing number of our chiefs are better educated, men and women of i

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MARCUS AMPADU
04-06 18:20
 
 
 
SO DOES GHANA MORE THEN ANYONE WITH BNI KILLERS HARRAS GHANA PEOPLE AND KILL PEOPLE QUEITLY IN THEIR CUSTODY AND WITH GOVREMENT THAT DRAG PEOPLE TO COURT WITH ZERO EVIDENCE JUST THAT THESE PEOPLE GET CLEAR BY THE COURT AND WITH POLICE BRIBE AT ALL TIME HIG

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ananyho
04-06 08:41
 
 
 
Fools Africa had democracy before the colonizers came. Now the issue Africa has stems from trying to adop the Western style of democracy which does not work in Africa anyway. Western style of democracy will only make Africa poor an

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Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is my hero
04-06 12:52
 
 
 
 
It's The Same Democracy At Diff't Levels Sir, I would be the first to concede that the Democracy as practiced in the West isn't a perfect System. But I think we would be better off seeing it as the same Democracy all Humanity aspire to have but at a different level.

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G. K. Berko
04-06 14:00