By Owei Lakemfa
We were gathered. Some intellectuals, social activists, journalists, serving and retired diplomats. The primary issue was democracy. Is it universal and is there just a single, or multiple roads to democracy? Is the British democracy which calls itself the Mother of Parliaments, superior to the American version; is the latter better than the Australian or the Chinese? Is Russian democracy superior to the Ukrainian?
It was Thursday, April 27, 2023 and the venue
was the Cuban Embassy on Diplomatic Drive, Abuja. The out-going Cuban
Ambassador Clara Pulido Escandell was presenting the report of the April
19, 2023 general elections in her country and explaining Cuban democracy within
the context of democracy in the modern world.
