I have been holding the view that democracy is necessary for stability and somehow development, but my world view has been changing as I get to learn about many countries. Consider Swaziland a country that is an absolute monarchy led by unelected King who rules over his subjects. But what struck me the most is that Swaziland is more developed and progressive than Kenya. Swaziland has a higher HDI than Kenya and per capita income that is double that of Kenya, which has so called a democratically elected govt, free speech, independent arms of govt whatever.
Consider this, Swaziland King has got no reasons at all to be accountable to its citizens compared to Kenya, but the King reigns well and the citizens has got better quality of life compared to an average Kenyan as per the statistics. Kenya has been having the so called freedom of press, expression, political parties whatever but the same freedom or democracy whatever has not managed to stop successive govts from looting and making an average kenyan poorer. Countries such as Swaziland, Rwanda, morroco, china and others are ruled by kings and unelected govts, but their govts are making huge progress compared to these so called democratic countries like ours.
What is my take? I believe there is no perfect system of government that should be prescribed for any nation. So long as the country's citizens are okay with their govt, and its working for them that should be it. And that is why Swaziland, Morocco and even China managed to beat us. They adopted a system of govt that was working as per their traditions, culture and history. Maybe had we adopted village elders as a form of govt from all the communites in Kenya and made some few modifications, who knows? maybe it could be working fine because it used to work well before the colonialists came. Right now we are always making changes, such as, 2010 constitution and now BBI whatever and nothing is working because we are just copy pasting models from other countries that may not suit us. Libya was prosperous under Gaddafi until democratization happened and now they are in shambles and war. I also believe and hold an opinion that if China and Russia was made to democratize forcefully by kicking out Putin and CCP everything will break apart.
Conclusion: DEMOCRACY is not the BEST/BETTER form of government. It is an alternative form of government among the other options available. Choose the best system/form of government that works best for you based on your needs, culture and history.
Consider this, Swaziland King has got no reasons at all to be accountable to its citizens compared to Kenya, but the King reigns well and the citizens has got better quality of life compared to an average Kenyan as per the statistics. Kenya has been having the so called freedom of press, expression, political parties whatever but the same freedom or democracy whatever has not managed to stop successive govts from looting and making an average kenyan poorer. Countries such as Swaziland, Rwanda, morroco, china and others are ruled by kings and unelected govts, but their govts are making huge progress compared to these so called democratic countries like ours.
What is my take? I believe there is no perfect system of government that should be prescribed for any nation. So long as the country's citizens are okay with their govt, and its working for them that should be it. And that is why Swaziland, Morocco and even China managed to beat us. They adopted a system of govt that was working as per their traditions, culture and history. Maybe had we adopted village elders as a form of govt from all the communites in Kenya and made some few modifications, who knows? maybe it could be working fine because it used to work well before the colonialists came. Right now we are always making changes, such as, 2010 constitution and now BBI whatever and nothing is working because we are just copy pasting models from other countries that may not suit us. Libya was prosperous under Gaddafi until democratization happened and now they are in shambles and war. I also believe and hold an opinion that if China and Russia was made to democratize forcefully by kicking out Putin and CCP everything will break apart.
Conclusion: DEMOCRACY is not the BEST/BETTER form of government. It is an alternative form of government among the other options available. Choose the best system/form of government that works best for you based on your needs, culture and history.
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