How Generation Z could be giving African leaders autocratic licence
Supporters of Niger's National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland gather for a demonstration in Niamey near a French airbase in Niger on August 11, 2023. PHOTO | AFP
African leaders could bank on the young people to win elections and stay in office.
But this group of the population, mainly aged below 30, could also be the biggest spoilers of democracy on the continent, allowing the leaders to prolong their stay by riding on the population’s increasing lack of belief in democracy as a way of delivering public goods.
