Pretoria News Weekend

Africa’s disdain for West’s ‘lecture on democracy’

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Zambia together with four other countries, namely the United States, Costa Rica, the Netherlands and South Korea will host the second instalment of the Summit for Democracy in their various capitals from March 29-30.

The first Summit for Democracy, a brainchild of the US President Joe Biden, was hosted virtually by the US in December 2021 where more than 100 participating countries pledged to take action to promote and defend democracy around the world.

Biden was of the view, in light of

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