Alhaji U. N’jai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 July 2024:
I first wrote this piece after the January 6, 2020 rebel within the US and now within the wake of July 13, 2024 assassination try on President Trump, American democracy wants introspection.
America now must study as a lot from Africa’ s wealthy expertise with multi-ethnic and pluralistic democracy.
American democracy has labored politically properly up to now in a largely homogenous white dominated atmosphere. It now should cope with an more and more advanced multi-racial, aware, and pluralistic political financial system for which it lacks the requisite expertise to deal with.
4 years of Trump, its dealing with of Covid-19 pandemic, race relations, post-US 2020 elections violence, Russia-Ukraine battle, and Biden’s dealing with of the Israel-Palestine Gaza battle have all severely broken US world standing.
It’s time for America to deconstruct and decolonize its current democratic mannequin regionally and in relation to the remainder of the world.
On multi-racial democracy, America should now study from the remainder of the world quite than deal with being conveyors of it. For this, I imagine, Africa’s wealthy pluralistic democratic expertise structured on a number of layers of ethnicities, class, religions, western schooling and traditionalist, city and rural dichotomies, and colonial expertise provides a superb place to begin.
African political economies have displayed outstanding resilience regardless of years of slavery, colonialism, dangerous governance, wars, turmoil, illness and environmental strife. African multi-ethnic democracies have been portrayed as weak, fragile, and instable, however have largely been that method due to colonial disruptions and present neocolonial affect, that ensures unfettered entry to it sources.
Mediocrity on the a part of the African elites or leaderships is but to permit whole liberation and the event of sound ideologies for political, social, and financial group of its individuals.
4 years of Trump and emergence of multi-racial democracy is pushing America to the brink of chaos. Basically, America is now the place Africa was post-independence, relating to it younger and fragile multi-racial democracy.
The problem as in Africa is construct nationwide cohesion alongside a powerful constructive sense of nationwide identification in a multi-ethnic atmosphere.
The African tradition of ubuntu, collectivism, communal belonging, social justice, and tolerance have been the foundational underpinnings of each the African resilience and success with pluralistic democracy.
America should grapple with its individualism values and capitalism in an more and more multi-racial and pluralistic political financial system
In regards to the creator
Alhaji Umar N’jai is a Senior Scientist, Professor, Panafrican Scholar, Founder & Chief Strategist of Challenge 1808, Inc., and Freelance author ‘Roaming within the Mountains of Kabala Republic’. #Jata #Meejoh #ThePeoplesScientist
