What does compartmentalization mean? The term is at the heart of the Great Seat Belt Debate. It was coined during the 1967 and 1972 Series 1 and Serie...
Many Africans consider the Western model of political democracy to be extremely narrow and even alien to African cultures. Democracy is not merely the right to vote and seize power, the Rev. Jose Belo Chipenda, General Secretary, All Africa Conferenc e of Churches (AACC) has said.
Democracy is a system that allows the people of a country to have more control in the formation of the laws of the land as well as in the policies and conduct of the representatives whom they choose on the basis of elections. There is input from the citizens of the country in democracy. There are different forms of democracies that follow the principles of true democracies in varying degrees with direct and representative being most commonly practiced in many parts of the world. There are differences between these two systems of democracy that will be talked about in this article.