The political happenings in the land of Africa may not be interesting to many for a number of reasons .
One of such reasons is the idea that politics as it is practiced in Africa lack substance and has no dept. To them the political landscape seems to be empty and nothing is being taught or learnt by party members and those who are not in politics.
The present realities steers us in the face sad enough Political parties are no longer interesting as they are presently being used as a vehicle to grab political power . Sad enough what follows after is that the medium through which power is attained is jettisoned .
The African politics is that of abandonment , use and dump, I have come across many counting loses , stories of how they worked their life out for a particular politician at the end no reward for their work .
On the other hand I tell friends that follow politicians not to expect reward but to work with them to secure the future of the unborn generation .
I tell Africa to seek for political leaders of vision and purpose those with foresight of a hundred years to come . Africans should seek for leaders that are highly creative and innovative those with great minds to transform the nation .
Another reason is that the democracy we practice is derived from the western political system which is quite alien to the fundamentals of our ways of life , cultural practices and tradition . This may just be one reason why politicians may continue to experience political summersault, failure in the system because the originators of democracy added their cultural values and tradition in politics and that practice takes government to the people.
One major ingredient of democracy is freedom , those who are in democracy must be free , it is only when a man is free he can build his environment and by extension the nation .
Here in Africa rather than government being given to the people the elected officers take government from the people. Politicians in Africa love power and they govern and retain power , the practice of political dictatorship in Africa started a long time ago and has taken firm root and may be difficult for anybody to do something about it .
Dictatorship has been the real challenge in African politics, which the system has not been able to address . The damage of dictatorship to any political system is the disconnection between the people and the political parties . The songs are the same everywhere and the people no longer believe in the present day politicians .
I was involved in a political conversation with a friend and our trust is that if political parties must chart a new path it must be from their constitution and the kinds of character they elect in political office
The voters are becoming more informed and more sophisticated in their approach to issues and the feeling is that political parties must shift to politics of engagement . The party still have enough time to build on its scorecard and for me I am studding the body movement of the people and my take on 2019 is that it would be interesting
The party members must swallow their interest and chose a contestant good enough to create a road for recovery for the party . In my view they should choose a personality that is vociferous and loud in action . They should choose a character that knows the political terrain very well . The party should choose a man with clout a bridge builder and not a regional political leader. Politics Is potent and its ingredients is the interaction with the people, politics is engaging the people and politics is listening to the people and one man that has walked his way through the ropes as seen from the eyes of many onlooker