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One Reason Democracy In Africa May Always Be A Mess by Ikengawo: 8:40pm On Mar 08, 2011
Africans are too passionate about everything.
An african can rarely be moderately proud, moderately religious, moderately studious, moderately devious, or moderately political.

any endevour africans put their interest in they're almost always extermistis about it.

So when elections come africans can't just be 'against' a politician, they have to totally and completely hate him to the point of him becoming a personal enemy.

and when they're for one they're obsessively passionate about their loyalty to the point of blind ignorance.

so when someone loses and they were obsessed with the person, they don't except it and want to fight someone or burn down something.






same with politicians, this is what creates their 'do or die' mentality, it's an african thing.






America's politics works because 80% of americans don't care. More then half of the country doesn't vote and only a narrow 10% is passionately political, but rarely to the extent of violence.


this degree of social level headedness is missing in africa and is why our politics will always be a mess, africans are WAY too dramatic.

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