POLITICS
Term Limits Is a defeatist Approach that Escapes the Major Question of Electoral Justice
Martin K . Ngoga
The liberal one-size-fits-all template was never going to work .
Since the 1990s , western governments have been pushing for democratisation in Africa . They often express frustration that Africans are not “ getting it .” Even their capacity building seminars and conferences have not helped the democratisation project the way they thought of it . However , there could have been much progress had those who lecture Africans about democracy considered the possibility that they are the ones who are not getting it . The liberal one-size-fits-all template was never going to work . The reasons for that seem obvious , and it would take a dictatorship to
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