{UAH} What is democracy?

What is democracy? "Democracy is the rule of the people. A truly democratic country puts the needs of the people above the egos of politicians - although in practice, this is rarely the case.

Regular elections are not synonymous with democracy. Too often, elections are not themselves democratic because they lack essentials like competitiveness, inclusiveness and definitiveness.

And democracy goes beyond free and fair ballots. Democracy is also rule of law; accountability; freedoms of association, assembly, opinion and expression; equality; and responsiveness.

Democracy is the existence of free media and mass movements able to expose sores and decays within society and governance.

What we see now in Uganda and other African countries is a crisis in democracy: Self-interested and unresponsive governments have betrayed the aspirations of initiators of African democracy.

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"War is nothing but a  continuation of political intercourse, with a mixture of other means. Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."