IPP Media: What Africa expects from the US elections
What Africa expects from the US elections
"The world watches as America sets to elect its 44th president today. The election battle is between Democratic contender Barack Obama and his Republican rival John McCain.Over a period of time, it has been stated by various African intellectuals on several occasions that they would wish to be able to vote in an American election precisely because if ``they pipe in America, they dance in Africa.``
The establishment of democratic institutions and the building of multi-party political culture in Africa have been dogged by poverty, ignorance and even armed uprisings, while many of the internal crises in the still infant African countries had a foreign hand in them. The power that the United States wields in the United Nations and global affairs is sufficient for adoption of UN reform, which should lead to Africa having a greater say; and one of its nations occupying a seat in the United Nations Security Council as permanent member with veto power. This is not too much to ask the winner of today's US presidential election."
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