ONE-PARTY RULE = A dictator and end of June 12, by Dele Sobowale
Despite the overwhelming evidence available to all of us, that one party, one man dictatorships have left the continent mostly under-developed, Africans everywhere still embrace one party and one man dictatorships – whether military or civilian.
One of my mates at the university in the USA, George Saitoti, became first Finance Minister, then Vice President to Kenya’s dictator, Arap Moi, 1924-2020, after helping the tyrant to gain absolute power.
Kwame Nkrumah, 1909-1972, and Sekou Toure, 1922-1984, the late Presidents of Ghana and Guinea, respectfully, serve to remind us of how multi-party democracies when independence was granted were transformed into one party and one man dictatorships until they were both toppled by another one man dictatorship – the military.
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