Weak oppositionLocal and foreign observers say the opposition suffers from structural weakness and democracy in the country is feeble.
I just don't understand why cultural conservatives can't understand this basic notion that democracy is "education". Democracy is practice. But most importantly, democracy is better attained when taught AND PRACTICED from BOTTOM -> Up.
Our democracy is not mature, at least, not as fast as one would expect as long as we do not have a veritable dialogue on, and even eventual replacement of the current natural leadership style government we call chiefs, fons, lamidos.
One course we had at the law faculty in Soa is "Political Institutions". Here, we studied that before the west brought democracy we always had our system of natural leadership. We also learned that before the west choose a better implementation of democracy they also broadly practiced natural leadership just like we currently do in Cameroon (Africa). The west then reformed and largely embraced democracy in its pragmatic sense.
Only a fool will wonder why democracy works for the most part in European countries that still have monarchies yet won't work in African nations where we also have monarchs. Duh!! The difference is that the West understood that democracy works best from bottom to top. In other words, it's better democracy to have democratic institutions at the most basic level of government (and then a monarch at the top) as in Europe, rather than the other way around. This also explains why even China, which is not considered a democratic country has survived implotion for so long since the father of their nation put the system in place. China's local institutions are elected, even if everyone in China belongs to the same party. At the end of the day, it's more about the person and not about the party they adhere to.
At least for Europe and the West, they had an excuse, they created democracy and didn't have any books or examples to follow. But in our case, the pragmatic examples of countries that have made it and those that haven't speak for themselves. Yet, we fail to grasp this useful knowledge.
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