Democracy Day: Has Democracy Worked?
Today in my dear country Nigeria, we celebrate Democracy day. In my opinion, this day should be a day we ask questions about the journey of our democracy. Who has it favoured and who is it favouring.? It's days like this that I wish Baba Fela Anikulapo was still alive, in one of his songs, he commented on Nigeria's democracy, he said: "Democracy, crazy demo, demonatration of craze,crazy demonstration,if [it is not] crazy, why is it that as time goes in Africa, things are just getting bad, getting bad more and more. Poor man cries, rich man continues to mess [up things]" Baba Fela said these words when he realised like other well-meaning Nigerians in the 90's that democracy in Nigeria and Africa at large was no more "government of the people for the people and by the people", it had became an avenue for the "elected" to amass wealth at the expense of those who elected them. The question we should ask ourselves is, how has things cha