Commentary
The declining prestige and influence of Western powers have been occurring in direct proportion to the abandonment of Western theories of “liberal democracy” by most states on the African continent.
The latest example was the implosion of stability in the West African state of Sierra Leone following its June 24 presidential election debacle.
The use of “elections” to continue the administration of President Julius Maada Bio was the latest example since 2020 of the return of Africa to an era of coups and counter-coups, not all of them strictly military in execution. The forcible and blatant overturning of transparency and respect for actual ballot box exercises in “democracy” in the 2023 elections in Nigeria and Sierra Leone showed not only that African politicians and military no longer feared Western opprobrium but also that they had no alternative methodology for the maintenance of governance….