Speaking as a bedfellow on the June 7, 2024 copy of the A55 Podcast, hosted by Nii Akrofi Smart-Abbey, Ouedrago emphasized the burning charge for West Africa to assignment appear accumulation capitalism as allotment of its development matrix.
Ouedrago, who is additionally an Assistant Professor of Communications at the Universite Nazi Boni, Burkina Faso, advised in on Ghana's accessible acclamation affirmation that clashing in added countries, Ghana's acclamation is accepted to be cellophane and credible.
"Ghana is absolutely an outlier compared to these countries because in Ghana we apprehend an acclamation that is activity to be added or beneath fair and an acclamation that is activity to advance to chain of the state.
"In added words, there is not activity to be a breach in the institutional framework we apperceive as Ghana and in the end irrespective of what happens, the champ is activity to be the admiral of Ghana," he stressed.
Ghana's 2024 accepted elections will entail the acclamation of a new admiral and 275 Members of Parliament. The presidential chase is a action amid accepted Vice Admiral Mahamudu Bawumia and above Admiral John Dramani Mahama.
Ghana's accepted Parliament with 137 MPs apiece on the Majority and Minority benches agency alone an absolute MP's accommodation to adjust with the government gave it characterization Majority Group. This has added to the astriction in key constituencies advanced of the December 7 vote
The no-surprise vote in Chad vs. Senegal's 'people power' acclamation
He acicular to the 2024 presidential vote in Chad and the one that took abode in February in Senegal to explain how balloter and autonomous processes in altered sub-Saharan countries can be acutely contrasting.
"We woke up to a new admiral in Chad, no surprise, no big abruptness at all. That is the affectionate of elections that get me afraid about the accompaniment of capitalism in Africa broadly back citizens do not assurance the action that leads to the best of a leader," he submitted.
Over in Dakar, he emphasized how acuity ensured that capitalism and the will of the bodies prevailed.
"Predefined after-effects do capitalism no good. I consistently acquaint bodies that in Senegal, it is not capitalism that won but it was the will of the Senegalese adolescence that won admitting themselves. The Senegalese didn't appetite to die in their hundreds afore they get to accept their baton democratically," he added.
He lamented the bearings of Togo's new architecture and its new political dynamics arguing that it was a avenue to acquiesce the admiral to consolidate ability and anchor his access over the accompaniment for as continued as possible.
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The A55 Podcast is a belvedere birthed to accord to the growing chat of accepting African choir abode the continent's successes and failures at the national, subregional, continental and all-around levels.
Its agreeable basin is as assorted as the affluent and circuitous history of Africa. From all-embracing diplomacy to democracy, cartography to the arts, media and agenda articulacy to history, A55 podcast serves a assortment of arresting conversations.
"On this podcast, we will strive to reflect the accurate absoluteness on the arena today and altercate issues active Africa's challenges and advance with experts and with individuals who are allowance to adapt the anecdotal about Africa," host Smart-Abbey stated.
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