The celebrations that heralded democratic change in the 1990s in
Africa have gradually faded into muffled cries of anger and
attendant violence of despair. Almost everywhere on the continent
so-called democratic leaders are openly subverting the people's
will and disregarding national constitutions. Ordinary people find
themselves removed from the centres of power, marginalized and
reduced to helpless and hopeless onlookers as political leaders,
their friends and families noisily enjoy the spoils of impunity.
From Nigeria to Zimbabwe, Kenya to the Ivory Coast and Uganda to
Cameroon, the writing is on the wall. The experiment with democracy
has blatantly taken a dangerous nosedive. There is a crisis of
honest, committed and democratic leadership, in spite of the
advancements in education and intellectualism of the populace, and
despite the influences of globalization and new understandings of
governance. In this brief volume, Tatah Mentan makes an incisive
diagnosis of how the "security forces" brutally crush protests
against bids to stay in power through corrupt electoral practices
as well as how opposition voices have been hunted down and crushed
or intimidated into graveyard silence. This is a clarion call for
Africans to embrace the values of People Power in synch with the
dictates of the current global imperatives. There is no place for
visionless leadership. Africans need to raise their voices to
recapture their freedom.
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