POLS 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Alassane Ouattara, Personal Rule, Afro
14 Nov 2017
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Tuesday november 7th 2017 democracy in africa: I(cid:374) the 2000"s ele(cid:272)tio(cid:374) the(cid:396)e (cid:449)e(cid:396)e o(cid:448)e(cid:396) 1000 people killed: people wait for hours to vote in kenya, q day readings up the end of nelson mandela, the ivory coast: In the ivory coast, the winner of the 2011 elections, alassane ouattara, waited in a hotel while the international community decided what to do with the loser, Laurent gbagbo, who would refuse to leave the presidential mansion. And then back again: south africa fails this test but that does not mean it is not democratic. The (cid:272)apa(cid:272)ity to (cid:396)espo(cid:374)d to people"s (cid:374)eeds: you can have an election, you can have change in party, you can have the media, However is the government actually achieving things or are they all equally ineffective: do governments only pay attention to their client or ethnic group. In order for democracy to occu(cid:396), the people"s (cid:374)eeds ha(cid:448)e to (cid:271)e (cid:373)et.
