Dear Editor,
 
Democracy is a complex thing in Africa. Some countries are getting it right, while others are still having problems or perceiving it wrong. It’s a struggle that continues on our continent and people have to keep struggling to achieve it.

But of course, it can also teach all of us a lesson; especially from the developed countries that tend to prescribe the standards and give their own formula as to how democracy should be practiced indiscriminately.

I think democracy has an element that tends to be ignored. It is for a fact that democracy should always be tailored to suit specific conditions, historical or otherwise, in any given country but we consistently forgot this.

The blend of these situations is where the trick lies and is where people should not under estimate. In terms of the consequences, I think it forms a good intellectual debate and a good reflection for everybody, and so people have to look at what has happened in Kenya and never go wrong again.

Gisozi