Is the government of people by people for the people
are one among the good definition of democracy. This was given by the late
Abraham Lincoln means that democracy is all about bringing power to the hands
of the people (majority).
The history shows that this culture was born in ancient
Greeks societies and it has been there days before christ.
The two aforementioned contributors of development
of democracy ; The Greeks and Lincoln both were the theoretical disciples of democracy
and not the perfect people of being example as democratic allied.
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Africa is the origin of democracy
This democracy which says that was born in ancient Greece
was practically applied in ancient African society centuries before anywhere
else in the globe.
Traditionally African societies had their ways of
solving their problems and making decisions for their development by
discussions for peace and freedom until they get the solution or decisions then
they come up with the agreement. These are very important keys for people’s power
and the real democracy must obey this culture.
In African local languages there is no word or
terminology which is equivalent to the word ‘class’. In any democratic society
is not easy to see the antagonistic classes if this democracy is in practice
and not in words and theories. So the absence of the equivalent word to the
word class in African local languages proves that African societies were
classless society (no antagonistic classes).
History prove the fact that in Africa there were
kings ruled their empires in democratic ways years before coming of the whites
in the continent. This also can be proved by the book of Clutton-Brock.In his
book Nyasaland he described the African tradition of making decision through
the method of discussion then agreement.Clutton used the good phrase that “They
talk till they agree”(Julius Nyerere Freedom and Unity-1965).This gives more
clarification on African tradition of democracy.
How
the western societies denied the principles of real democracy
And even though the westerners (Euro-centric
scholars) were the one who claimed to be the founders of democracy and its operation,
their life in reality were very far from democracy. The British used a lot of
money for the royal family’s expenditures and that money are the taxes of the
poor people who working hard at day and night to pay tax for the development of
all people. In Britain this continues up to the present.
Abraham Lincoln the one who formed a perfect
definition of democracy created such definition while he was in a society which
is full of racism and moreover it was a slave- owning society. So Greeks and
Lincoln preached for what they did not practiced.
Ancient Greeks also neither practiced nor originated
it. In the book of Professor Innocent Onyewuenyi (African the origin of Greeks
Philosophy) he described the history of political development by comparing ancient
societies of Greek, near east and Africa. In chapter 4 pg137 the book states
that(some interpretations are mine)The conflicts among the ancient Greek states
caused by the corruption of the ruling class. The nobles oppressed the peasants
(majority) class by appropriating their lands. So there were two antagonistic
classes existed in ancient Greek societies, the haves and the haves not.
He continued; In Egypt (Africa) the government met
the needs of the people by irrigating the countryside and ensuring the growth
of abundant of food for the satisfaction of all”.
So there were no conflicts in Africa due to the good
government which was there for the benefits of all people contrary to the
Greeks whose stand for the tiny minority of the rich only. So for the fact above,
Democracy is an African culture which has been copied by the western societies
because of its betterment.
And
what they do in the present?
In present we may see how this democracy which means
majority power and welfare of the people has been taken vice versa and been
being practiced in opposite direction.
A good example is when president Mugabe of Zimbabwe
decided to take the land from the tiny white minority to the overwhelming
majority of the Africans of Zimbabwe the western world resisted against him for
his democratic attempt of favoring the rights of the majority. The Zimbabweans
suffered for the economic crisis due to the economic sanctions from western
world which was a punishment to Mugabe due to his action for his people.
In Libya the situation is the same.NATO invaded the
land and killed innocent people only because of a single person who they
claimed that he kills his own people. So how can you stop killings by killings?
And in fact the late Gadaffi was one among the good example of the African
leaders who ruled his country for the benefits of all Libyans. Welfare of the
people was the main issue practiced by his government.
Unexpectedly western countries and their media
started to propagate that he was a dictator and he kill his own people. So they
invaded the land and arresting him while he ruled the country for the benefits
of all people which is the key centre of democracy.
About the same time western countries now especially
in USA the people striking because of poor standard of living which make them
to suffer under capitalism. The Occupy Wall Street(the American Awakening or
the 99 percenters)is the good example that most of the western governments
hypocritically they pretend to preach human right and democracy while they
don’t practice it in reality. The people in strike claim that, neither
Republican nor Democrats has been stand for the majority welfare; they say both
stands for the few lobbyists (rich men) and their interests by any means
necessary.
They preach peace but they are the ones who
organized both first and second world war. Is the war democracy? Or is it human
right? They pretend to preach human rights but they killed thousands of the
Afghans for searching Osama Bin Laden. They killed thousands of Iraq people
while they were looking for a one person Saddam Hussein..
Now Africa must WAKE UP! We must go back to the
truth after a long time of being fooled by their media and western miss-education.
We must say no to their propaganda and lies. We are
the fathers of Democracy. Africa is the birth place of democracy and human
rights because we practiced it before them. For the western people to teach us
about democracy is like the blind man to be a driving school teacher.
