Africa polls: Why glorify Western validation?

For heaven’s sake! Are we going to ever let go of these self-imposed shackles, for no one is holding a gun on us anymore, and cease this constant quest for validation from outside? Do Kenyans, and the rest of us Africans, in general, actually think our observers to any European election would cause that specific country to skip a bit and halt all (if any) government function, were we to find fault in how the electoral process took place?