Democracy will never work in a third world country

Recalling our African history and Ugandan national motto that "For God and my country", I think it’s either now or never that we accept the fact.

Democracy as we define it right away from Primary school assumes one principle that cannot be left out; ALL PEOPLE OF A COMMUNITY/COUNTRY/STATE/PROVINCE HAVE A PERFECT UNDERSTANDING OF THE POLITICS AND ECONOMY OF THE AREA.

Well, in the developed world, majority will cast their vote based on reason or at least basing on inherited love for a particular political party which their predecessors supported or founded and this approximates the assumption underlying democracy.

Just a reminder, the democracy we are talking about today is more American than Greek! Americans formulated their Democratic Principles after discontent with the British way of doing things, but all the same the two societies are the exact mirror reflections of the African societies of the Third world like in Uganda and many other African countries.

Sincerely, at times people say that intellectuals tend to under look other people and they said that when professor Kanyeihamba one time implied that peasants' votes should not carry the same weight as those of their educated sons and daughters. I strongly agree with the learned justice's implications because in third world countries like my motherland, the illiteracy levels are still very low and it actually makes no sense for me to go and cast my vote to any African leader basing on the a better expression of ideas in a certain party manifesto ahead of any opposition contestant and yet another country votes for that leader also basing on the fact that the said leader's agent has sponsored him a waragi bottle.

Some times it is hard to admit the truth except if it has marks on our body like signs of AIDS or disability, but we need to contemplate and accept that provided that our society is still like that then the concept of Democracy shall never work here and therefore trying to imitate the maturity in multiparty politics of the Unites States is a mere DREAM! The Ugandan President M7 for instance has always communicated this clearly and still some people seem to have failed to get his point right. Ok if you are one of them, here it is; A society needs a revolutionary and visionary leader who should be given the chance to steer the country through a period of continued development and transformation and lead it to TAKE-OFF stage and then you can start talking about Democracy and multi-partyism.

Ofcourse, someone like Dr Kiiza Besigye of Uganda or Morgan Tsvangirai, the Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader, will never come to admit the fact that revolutionary leaders like M7, Rober Mugabe or Paul Kagame are not just average men/ boys that they watched grow! Leaders like M7 and many great leaders of this world is a wise man and a great reader and that is what makes one a great leader!!!! M7, Kagame and Mugabe have read widely about dictatorial regimes, transformation of countries in far East Asia and believe me such leaders have mastered African society.

For instance M7 has maintained strategic flexibility despite harboring his own ideology (movement democracy) and will always swing around a 'multi-party' democracy which never is!

To drive the point home, I have this to say "For the West to promote Multi Party Democracy in low developed Africa; it is re-inventing the wheel i.e. pre-independence civil wars and slave trade." The argument here is not against multiparty democracy, but just like the formulas in mathematics, it’s not universally applicable and thus third world is among the EXCEPTIONS.

You will agree with me that it takes courage to agree to this and admit that if we are to take off, then we need to leave revolutionary leaders like M7, Kagame, Col. Umar Gadafi of Libya and Mugabe to steer the continent to greater heights for they have a ‘vision’ and then think of true democracy.