Since independence, African states have swallowed the lie that the legitimacy of their periodic general elections can be judged to have been free and fair only when it is apparent that they were witnessed and given a stamp of approval by missions of mysteriously appointed foreign observers.
The members of those missions are often not qualified or knowledgeable about the demography and political environment involved in those elections.
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