Sunday, March 22, 2009

Lessons from Ghana’s 2008 elections - Mawuli Dake

This is good news and a good read from Pambazuka.

In this exceptionally good essay, Mawuli Dakel celebrates the recent Ghanaian election and comes to this conclusion, among others: "Money can no longer buy votes for victory ... candidates can no longer substitute money for concrete ideas, substantive messages or genuine appeal to voters as they have in the past."

This is great. I can only hope that other African nations, including my dear country, Nigeria, would take a leaf from Ghana.
Here's the whole essay.

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