Africa: The International Community and Africa's Democracy Construct

opinion

Freetown — More than ever as Africa gets entwined in the international system, the international community is becoming increasingly part of Africa's development. Ever more, the international community includes the ever-growing Africans working in numerous international organizations and diasporan Africans across the world's capitals whose transmission of billions of dollars annually to Africa have given them immense influence on their homelands.

Most times, the international community is the last resort in resolving Africa's self-inflicted complications, especially in the face of frightening leadership as we saw in Nigeria under Gen. Sani Abacha and his associates. The reasons vary Africa-wide, but the constantly ringing arguments are feeble political leadership and weak institutions. Against these backgrounds, international pressure to democratize for stability and development are impacted on African countries where threats of coup d'etats, weak economies, fragile underdeveloped infrastructure, and unstable domestic authority structures are strongly prominent.

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