There are those in Ghana who see democracy as part of God’s creation or perhaps something found in the Holy Bible if they’re Christians or found in some chapters in the Holy Quran if they’re Muslims. Some even behave as if Democracy is actually part of the first book in the Holy Bible, as if Genesis 1-1 reads: In the beginning God created the Heavens and Democracy. While we cannot entirely blame Ghanaians for their obsession with Democracy, there is no excuse for one’s failure or inability to understand that Democracy is simply an idea or a system of government proposed by an individual and NOT a fixed natural human survival mechanism.
Inasmuch as democracy in its very essence is strange and alien to any African culture, it’s also scientifically proven to be unnatural and counter-intuitive. It is true and factual that Western appurtenances are universally attractive and prominent. However, the ideological contradictions somewhat synchronise Western democracy and capitalism, making it appear seemingly impossible to function under a socialist society.
In ancient Africa, such as the Kingdom of Kush (Nubia), the maritime Aksumite Empire, like the Ghana Empire, Mali, and Great Zimbabwe, no element or trace of democracy that some Ghanaians find impossible to survive without ever existed. Democracy is not scientific, and imperial Britain and the United States know that it is the only political system or the system of governance which easily opens up a sovereign state for foreign interference. The practice of democracy in ancient Greece emerged as a revolutionary means to take power from the aristocrats.
In this paper, I intend to bring democracy in its naked form and present to you why democracy is a complete disconnect from the sociocultural settings of Ghanaians and sub-Saharan Africa, for that matter. When democracy was first introduced by Cleisthenes in Athens around 502 BC, several great thinkers like Aristotle, Plato and his teacher Socrates understood the genetic formation of democracy and its possible process of evolution perhaps thousands of years into the future. As Ghanaians or Africans, democracy came to us as a solution in its rawest form primarily as colonial subjects, whose education system and curriculum had been deliberately carved to suit the needs of the colonialists and strengthen their hold on their subjects.
The imperialists are also fully aw…
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