Africa's Search Is Halting, but We Cannot Despair

Abstract

The biggest riddle of Africa is its political situation. Over the last three decades, our continent's preoccupation with the process of democratisation has only had marginal success. At the onset of this third millenium, the call urging African countries to democratise is coming both from within and from without. In our time, to subscribe to democracy as a form of government is to appeal for national renewal and global deference.