By Chiedu Uche Okoye
The
rashes of successful military takeovers in some African countries signpost the
failure of democracy on the African continent. Before
the Caucasoid race brought democracy to Africa, the many different kingdoms in
Africa had their pre-colonial types of government.
Then, we had the Dahomey
kingdom, Benin kingdom, Oyo Empire, and others. Their respective pre-colonial
types of government throve, ensuring and guaranteeing orderly succession of
pre-colonial governments in Africa. The evolutionary trends of our pre-colonial
governments were stymied by the white people’s introduction of democracy to the
African people(s), however.
