Democracy, Corruption, and Politics in Kenya & Africa

Friday, August 21, 2009

The west insistence of enforcing democracy in African countries is misguided. In Afriaca unlike the U.S. or Europe, democracy can't just be established firmly before some various issues have properly been sorted out. The main issue is grand corruption by governments.

This is the main stepping stone the western countries should try to weed out through encouraging reforms because no Government that is squandering its citizens money would let democracy see light of the day.

The second issue is Aid. western countries simply think that aid is the way to get Africa out of the poverty abyss it is in. In fact, the thing western countries should do is encourage trade. They should lean less on aid because this is what perpetuates corruption in the first place.