Questions of Leadership in Africa

Democracy is governance by leaders whose authority is found on a modified mandate from a common electorate that selects among genuine alternatives and has some rights to political participation and opposition. (Danziger 1998, 159). Democracy accord to Abraham Lincoln is the government of the people, by the people and for the people. Advanced democracies ar countries with institutional state and a high level of frugal development and prosperity (GDP at PPP over $8000 and in the top third on the HDI) e.g. joined States of America and United Kingdom. All advanced democracies cover the basic comp 1nts of liberal democracies: fealty to private property and assoil markets, and a belief in liberty, political competition, and participation era transitional democracy is a country that is relatively parliamentary but shows incomplete signs of parliamentary consolidations. They f entirely midway amid an established democracy and non-democracy. about African countries such as Nig eria, Ghana etc. argon classified as transitional democracies. Athenian democracy authentic around the fifth deoxycytidine monophosphate BC in the Hellenic city-state known as a polis of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surround territory of Attica. Athens is unrivaled of the first known democracies. other Greek cities set up democracies, most following the Athenian model, but none are as well documented as Athens.\nThe first zippy institution of Athenian democracy was the Council or Boule, what would be the locker of Parliamentary governments in innovative day democracies. It consisted of 500 citizens who were ordained by lot and served one year terms with the hazard to serve there solitary(prenominal) twice in their lifetime and not in succession. Members had to be at least xxx years old and there were at least cubic decimeter members from each of the ten tribes. As a transitional democracy, this is a good reference dit to constitute our cabinets such that, as much as we dont all participate in...