Is Africa finally seeing the rise of Afrocrats and Afrocracy?
Sudanese protesters shout slogans and wave national flags during a protest outside the army headquarters in the capital Khartoum on April 22, 2019. PHOTO | OZAN KOSE | AFP
If there is ever formidable attestation that Africans are tired of autocratism and yet have become prejudiced to perpetually putting up with the burden of hijacked democracy, then one needs not look further but at the face of the triple events that just unfolded in Algeria, Sudan, and Mali within a span of less than three months.
Citizens’ resolve and pressure in the three countries all north of the Equator resulted in the heads of state and government officials reluctantly vacating office, thereby paving way for new political dispensations.
