Africa’s garden of democracy

Kabasubabu Katulondi writes "...The onus remains on African leaders at all levels. The “blame it on imperialists and colonisers” excuse has lost credibility. My deepest conviction is that democracy is a system and democratisation is a process: the way to build both is by using local ingenuity and drawing on the universal heritage, without altering the essence of democracy as a humanist project. Almost a half-century after independence, sub-Saharan Africans still face the tremendous challenge of building industrial societies and creating democracy as their superstructure..."