African leaders once personified unbridled despotism. Now they’re personifying the growing spectacle of leaders refusing to give up power after losing free and fair elections; hence their oxymoronic designation: democratic despots. This has led to an untenable new norm developing on the Continent where opposition leaders – who win clear and convincing elections – are… Read more.
Africa’s Democratic Despots Now Includes Gbagbo of Ivory Coast
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 5:29 AM