Detail It's Progress, Even If It's Patchy; Democracy in Sub-saharan Africa   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 400 no. 8753 (Oct. 2011), page 47-48. Topik: Democracy; Politics; Manycountries; Trends Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.68 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel "The people of Zambia have spoken and we must all listen," a defeated President Rupiah Banda intoned on September 23rd. His Movement for Multiparty Democracy had ruled Zambia for the past 20 years. Yet when the opposition leader, Michael Sata, and his Patriotic Front won a pretty fair presidential election by a margin of 43% to 36%, the incumbent bowed out with a good grace. In neighbouring countries and across Africa such fine behaviour is still unusual. But democracy, in one shape or another, is a lot more widely practised than it was. From around 1960, when Africa's colonies first became independent, until 1991, not a single one of Africa's 53 countries (now 54, including South Sudan), witnessed any leader or ruling party being peacefully voted out of office, with the noble exception of Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean, in 1982. Elsewhere a handful of presidents, such as Tanzania's late Julius Nyerere, voluntarily stepped down. Since 1991, however, no less than 30 ruling parties or leaders have been ousted by voters (for a full list, see table online). The Kenyan and Zambian ones were among those chucked out. Such cases are still a minority--and Kenya's most recent general election, at the end of 2007, ended in strife. But multiparty democracy, albeit with hiccups and setbacks, has undoubtedly gained ground. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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