Ghana is clearly way ahead of its African peers in the continental race toward establishing a lasting democracy. Another election has come and gone, and in spite of the several opportunities that existed to foment trouble, the players didn’t.
A presidential race fought so closely as Ghana’s ought to have transitioned into a gory bloody [...]

Credible elections, as I have always declared on this page, is not nuclear science. It is simply about honesty and the love of nation over self. That is what Ghana has shown Nigeria. All the international observers said the elections were credible and devoid of fraud; they are the same election monitors who declared that Nigeria’s 2007 elections were the most fraudulent they ever witnessed.

At the root of Zimbabwe’s suffering is the fact the people of that country refuse to take responsibility for ending their own suffering. They ask the outside world for help and when that help is given, they reject it as not good enough. The people of Zimbabwe, yes, have defeated every single reasonable solution that has been offered to them by their neighbours and the world.

As Ghanaians await the results of Sunday’s presidential election, political scientists are weighing in on whether Ghana would pass the test of mature democracy that has eluded most African countries.
Some political scientists define a mature democracy as a country that has had two successful handovers of power from legitimately elected leader to another. Joel Barkan,a [...]

The riot was triggered by a rumor on November 28, 2008 that the majority-Muslim All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) had lost in a local election to the mainly Christian Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), according to media reports.
Some 360 bodies have been given a mass burial, the same day the Federal Government deployed more troops to [...]

President-elect Barack Obama gave his first major television interview on 60 Minutes since winning the election on Sunday November 16. The interview — a sit-down with the president-elect and wife Michelle Obama, anchored by Steve Kroft — scored a commanding 24.5 million viewers the newsmagazine’s biggest in nine years. The show dominated every major [...]

There has been a lot of serious discussion on the American ground-breaking election, a Nigerian blogger examines the facts and injects some humor into the topic. The blogger examines the possible newspaper headlines if the election had been in Nigeria.
Head to Anthony Arojojoye’s On a Lighter Mode blog, “If America Was Nigeria”

Citizens of Nigeria’s Edo State are rejoicing over an appeals court decision effectively overturning the April, 2007 election of Edo State Governor Oserheiman Osunbor of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on voting irregularities. Elated residents poured out onto the streets of the Edo capital, Benin City, yesterday to witness the swearing-in ceremony for former [...]

Zimbabwean consumers are blaming the breakdown in the political power-sharing process for a major surge this week in prices of basic goods and services.
A loaf of bread now costs around Z$400,000, double last week’s price of Z$200,000. Two kilograms of sugar cost Z$1 million and a kilo of maize meal, Zimbabwe’s staple food, goes for [...]

That there is nothing traditional about 44th President-Elect and his family will be reiterating the obvious. They are not only advocating political change, but Michelle Obama is also changing fashion when it comes to first ladies. Michelle, unlike any First Lady who has ever occupied the White House, graciously portrays the look of [...]