What a defeatist article! In spite of the fact that I believe that western style democracy does not work all over the world (see the alternative democratic mode

What a defeatist article! In spite of the fact that I believe that western style democracy does not work all over the world (see the alternative democratic models of singapore and botswana as counter examples), there has to be a clear method to remove people abusing power. I believe the best method that would work in many African countries, particular the decentralised tribes of the Niger-Congo A language group, would be a system of consensus selections of locally organised 'leaders'. One man, one vote does not work for such societies. Rather, the local leaders who are chosen by traditional methods should represent the people who choose them. The western system of senators and delegates results in people who do not represent any group being selected to represent groups. Historical leadership structures in African societies should be adapted to work in a modern concept. Trying to force the european model on non-european societies has caused a lot of trouble all over the world - the illusion that this will ever work should finally be abandoned.