Democracy destroys African countries

After heavy protests with many people dead on the streets of Nairobi, Kenya, and many more in hospitals the youth has won over their President William Ruto. He withdrew the contested tax bill which would have brought further hardships to the suffering nation and especially the high number of unemployed youth. The move by the President has brought peace to his people but not solutions. The underlying debts are still in place and must be paid back eventually or the country must default and declare to be unfit to meet its financial obligations to local, regional, and international money lenders.

Like in most other African countries national development and democratic stability are built on the foundation of borrowing. When loans can't be paid back by domestic growth and tax revenues that come along with the increase in GDP loans at higher costs are taken to pay back the cheaper loans granted before. The economic death trap is set.

African leaders most often don't care about the consequences of borrowing from the white man. They see this as a geopolitical advantage on their side, personal benefits to their foreign bank accounts, and most of all due to the long duration of such loan facilities as a problem for future administrations at the time they are no longer in power. To win elections and be at the source of stealing from the nations they build hospitals, schools, roads, kindergartens, etc right before election time. Their manifestos have a validation period of less than four years revised for the last time when their flagbearers should stand again for another term in office, eight years in all.

Unlike Western democracies, African parties leave projects of the former party in power idle and uncompleted forcing through their agenda to fulfill their election promises. Money is lost to the state visible in many ruins across the continent. African politicians or their descendants are not held liable in any form but retire in grand style. The individuals in the streets of Nairobi, Accra, Harare, Luanda, Lome, Kigali, Abuja, and Lagos pass on their status of poverty to their children as they have to bear the costs of living and repayment of loans taken by the nation. This setup of the economy which is not connected to any vision but is stuck in endless sagas of manifestos to keep African nations in bondage of poverty.

Poverty is a term that must be seen and judged against the backdrop of the achievements of other nations, contemporary expectations of the citizens, and possibilities granted by the setup of a country (e.g. natural resources, sun to produce renewable energy, etc.) and the position the country wants to be in down history of tomorrow.

Democracy was not built in one day and had to overcome many challenges in various jurisdictions around the world. Some countries took longer than others to see the benefits of this system. In Europe the voters and among them the youth increasingly see the disadvantages as more relevant and vote according to their personal conclusion. The world has never witnessed a perfect political system and nothing on earth is new.

Humans come and go so political systems. What seems to matter to the common man in a country are strategies that effectively address the main fundamental social concerning matters for them, their children, and grandchildren. They expect service from their political system and people in power. Not all citizens can be pleased at the same time with their dreams and wishes but when the majority can be served well service is delivered well.

As long as the needed fundamentals of a functioning democracy are not laid out in Africa an in-between solution must be deployed to serve well. Based on the history of African elected Kingdoms shaped by modern elements of ancient Greek forms of governance of kings can achieve this goal and lift Africa up to take dominion of the world.