Establish Multinational Political Parties Component1 #11018 Africa's politicians and political parties must begin to think more continental, and less tribal/national, if Africa and its people are ever going to realize their value and the true value of its resources to their benefit and advancement. |
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- CitationsAdd new citationList by: CiterankMapLink[1] The new African Union (AU) chairman, Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi, has said that multi-party democracy in Africa leads to bloodshed
Author: BBC World News Publication info: February 4, 2009 Cited by: Earl Burrowes, Sr. 2:30 AM 6 February 2009 GMT Citerank: (1) 10008Tribal Nationalism (AFR)Some of the negative aspects of tribalism on the continent have evolved, through political parties whose foundations are based on tribalism, into a forms of fluid tribal nationalism - with all the threats and insecurity.1198CE71 URL: |
Excerpt / Summary At the final press conference of the summit on Wednesday, Col Gaddafi sought to back up his argument by citing other countries like Kenya, where elections in December 2007 were followed by ethnic killings, and war-torn Somalia.
"We don't have any political structures [in Africa], our structures are social," Reuters news agency quotes him as saying.
"Our parties are tribal parties - that is what has led to bloodshed."
The Libyan leader's remarks could prove controversial in a continent where people have struggled for decades to have more open systems of government, says our correspondent.
He adds it seems likely activists who have fought for multi-party democracy in countries like South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal may profoundly disagree with the new AU chairman. |