From Rwanda’s New Times
February 20, 2015-Nearly a decade ago, debate around Africa that coincided with the Gleneagles G-8 Summit and the publication of the Blair Commission’s report tended to homogenise Africa.
The attempt to mobilise a large number of people worldwide to help Africa through consistent pleas of rock stars and movie actresses who are far removed from Africa’s realities required commentators to talk about a more-or-less homogeneous Africa and to suggest explicitly that there was one solution for all countries.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The common theme for all these discussions was that Africa as a whole was incapable of developing without massive foreign assistance.
However, Africa traces its elements of democracy in the pre-colonial times; the European penetration and subsequent colonization only provided a gateway for the prevalence of Western form of another democracy with the practice of the parliamentary system.
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