The African Democracy: A Mockery to Reality

By Muange aa Munguti

While Africa accepted to receive democracy, African leaders closed their eyes against the weaknesses of the system. The weakness of the African democracy was the strength of the leaders and those who were prepared to exploit the continent. These prepared the big population to toil for the benefit of a few. African democracy has eaten away the African culture, morals, lifestyle, and languages. African democracy ate the African form of governance, justice, unity, peace, medicine man, music and dance and labeled them primitive. Among the continents on earth, only the African ancestry and languages have been lost and disposed.

In African democracies, the promise of prosperity is pegged on foreign languages. It is only in African democracies where every African child must put more than twenty-five years to learn a foreign language to have a future. Only in Africa where 75 percent of the population is insecure in all areas of life and live below the poverty line. It is only in African democracies where among a billion people, none can make a spoon or a simple toothpick. Only African democracies depend on imports, foreign investors, or naturalized citizens (from Asia, Europe, or America) and not the African citizens in industrial development.

The world should stand up and save Africa to educate her own children in her languages. Africa has the right to choose from reality, away from mockery. Africa is the only continent that thrives to do away with her languages in pursuit for foreign languages. Africa has the only culture that is demonstrated as archaic and antihuman. Everything that is African is below par compared to that of the rest of the world. Why?

Africa is unique; the Africans are a distinct people, and the continent, which is the most wealthy with minerals, is surprisingly with the poorest people on earth. There is a technology gap in Africa. The African democracy is the worst form of governance ever founded by humanity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Africa
• Release date: May 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781482806748

Muange aa Munguti

I was born in eastern Kenya in a family of ten, in a village full of hope and nature. I have pursued education to university level. I am married with a family of three children. I am a loving, caring, peaceful man, searching for equity, quality, and knowledge in all aspects of human life. I am a rational thinker and weigh my decisions and ideas between truth and reality. One of my laws that am attached to is the law of acceptance and I quote, “Acceptance is the first law; accepting who you are, where you are, and the situation you have found yourself in”; from there, you can find a direction and improve your person. I trust that this law is the bedrock of life. I observed African morals at an early age and have lived in the city for over thirty years. I have witnessed the blowing wind that is sweeping the African culture, morals, and lifestyle like dust to the sea and replacing it with poverty, hopelessness, and foreign lifestyle and languages. I have given one bet with a prize to work and pay $1,000,000 to any genius of the world—French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Greek, British, Irish, Chinese, or other—who can study with me in my African language and beat me off in any exam—art, science, or any technology. This will be a proof that the African has missed knowledge, progress, innovation, and invention because of language. I live in Machakos County, Kenya, East Africa.

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Contents

Acknowledgement

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

The Face of Democracy

Democracy That Promotes Subordinate

TAX

The Value of Our Languages

The Technology Gap

The Stock Exchange Market

The Foreigners Sovereignty

The Yoke of Slavery

The Democratic Exploitation

Exploitation

Education and Languages

Protect Africa Languages

Condemned Education

The Sense in Language

Mocking the African Languages

The Rate of Literacy in Africa

Africa’s Open Wealth

Not Our Choice

The Language Question

Colonial Ideology & Practice

The Power of Knowledge

Democracy and Tribalism

Tribalism is Hatred

My language is an Asset and not a Liability

Democracy- A Mockery in Africa

The Lost Culture

The Tyranny of Democracy

Media Freedom

Digital

Democratic Police and Justice

Corruption

Democratic Prices and Values

Democracy and Communism

Facts on African Democracy

The National Cake

The Reality in African Languages

African Democracy and Civil Strive

The African Phenomena

Facts in Democracy

Democracy a Mockery in Africa

The Gay and the Lesbian

Empowering Citizens

Tribalism

Democracy and Change

Democratic robbery

The Gay and the Lesbian

The pain of unemployment

The Wage Burden

Democratic favors

The languages of democracy

Democracy, Oppression, Justice and the Law

A Pledge of Faith

Biography

Acknowledgement

This book is built with a lot of insight, most of which was inspiration from God almighty. I always wonder how I came up with most of these magnificent writings. I can only thank God for the rational work contained in these pages.

the name of the lord be praised forever

‘Save me from my enemies, my God; protect

Me from those who attack me!’ Psalms 59:1

‘More than once I have heard God say that power belongs to Him, and that His love is constant. You yourself, Oh Lord, reward everyone according to his deeds’

Psalms 62: 11-12

This book was written through indulging many people to discussions on the failures of democracy in Africa. Most of whom I never mentioned the importance of the discussion that I engaged them.

My gratitudes and appreciations to my wife Jane who sat with me for long hours in the night discussing most of the contents.

To my sons Wiseman and Wrightman from whom I draw my strength to write.

To my daughter Sunita who is at the avenue of learning English with 20years more to go.

To my father Basilio Muange and mother Ann Kasiso the pillars behind my patience.

Trust in God at all times my people.

Tell him all your troubles,

For He is our refuge.

Foreword

Today Africa is sinking under the weight of many problems economic, political, social and religious. Africa needs the hand of God and that of the world to safe the continent. The continents is collapsing; all the systems worth to live for have collapsed; soon the people will collapse. Africa today is a walking corpse that need to be given life to live again.

Africa is narrowed down in the idea of adopting western lifestyle believing it to be the remedy for Africa’s problems; and, forgetting that the western was the major source of Africa’s problems. African governments have never rooted for the development of the individual to grow into the highest possibilities in human accomplishment, physical, artistic, ethical and spiritual. The African democracy is collapsing as a careless grip to capitalism, rule of riches, crime, muscle authority, corruption, injustice, and lack of priorities that support human development and transition to quality men.

The ratio of the rich African against the poor stands at 1:50000 meaning that out of every 50000 Africans, only one is rich. This does not mean the rich one is an African, but most likely a foreigner. Neither are they in diversity of regions but crowded in one city. This fraction goes along way across Africa; in most African countries, the situation is even worse. The situation in such a continent is obvious, only a few men afford to eat and sleep in peace, the rest wonder up and down the ladder to feed the rich. The poor feed the government and the rich but the harsh life compels them to belief that they, the poor, are fed by the government and the rich. The rich only sustain the lives of those who feed them. The costs of government services are too high in Africa’s third world nations than in first world. African nations offer no free services to her citizens, be it Justice, security, or toilet, the public must pay. The ordinary African has never thought of the costs they have to pay on persons that they vote as leaders and on the systems that they call democracy. The costs per day are more than that of all the voters. The truth is that the price of maintaining some of African leaders per day is more than that of the national expenditure on poverty elimination. These are basic reasons why every leader who ascends to the heights of leadership in Africa must support democracy.

Preface

I am an African, what I have is African for the world to hear the voice of pain and despair of the society in the continent. the African culture and languages are now turning to archives souvenir. My science of thought is clear and not in parables. What I have is the straight truth that everyone can bear witness beside those who think that the truth would eat them alive. whatever is African is archaic. men can get old, their children have white hair and their clothes torn; but culture is not derived fro a single generation or imitation, culture is derived from many generation of practice and modification to maturity. culture is not like a dress to disown overnight and change to another. The culture of a people is derived from the language they speak, the meaning and logic in their lifestyle and the spiritual understanding of live as perceived from the natural environment, and realization of proof or substance. Oh my God hold me that I may be save! Hold me God that I may speak, let me say your prophecy for Africa. A child that you dearly love but has deserted your blessings. Oh my God, let me humbly petition for Africa to live her dream. Direct my words, Oh God, that they may be clear to the world. Oh my God, help Africa that she may be Free. Free from poverty, free from imports, free from repression by foreign languages, free from dictators, free from exploitation free from police brutality, Away from corruption, tribalism and character decay. oh God let Africa be united, let Africa revert to her peoples languages, for the good of her children.

Introduction

Africa has moved from reality to images and stands helpless awaiting orders of direction from western world. While the Westerners are not sure of their systems, Africans are quite sure of the western systems, simply because Africa has nothing of her own to rely on. The three arms of democratic governance, the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary in Africa are not in balance to work together in harmony. The judiciary and the legislature stand under the shadow of the executive. The idea of democracy is in numbers and not reason and this makes a big fool of the African democracy.

The Face of Democracy

When we say democracy is an approach of governance, and political affairs, it is more than that. Democracy is everything; democracy is housing, you cannot live in a house unless you can pay. Democracy is clothing, you cannot put on clothes unless you can afford. Democracy is eating; you can die of hunger while others are throwing away food. Democracy is farming; you can excel in farming, but have no land to cultivate, while others have a million acres unused and live above farming. If a country is ours why should some people permanently own land; in other words own most of what is known as a nation while others own nothing of the same nation. African countries are divided by ownership of land. People own land and believe it as part of their being. Somebody finds you in his plot and accuses you of trespassing on his part of existence, a piece of land in your country fully owned by an individual with all the rights over the land as if it was not part of the country. This is the greatest crime committed by democracy in Africa. Today 75% of court cases are on land matters. If the state owned all the land it would, control the growth and development of the country by allocating land to people with development agenda. The state would initiate agriculture and motivate farming in fertile areas and allow development of towns at preferred areas. If the state owned all the land money spent to purchase land would be spent on development projects, and increase economic activities. Money spent to purchase land slows down development by 60% in third world African economies. Today Citizens in most African countries who own land can say they have small nations of their own. For example, the future of Africa is for the children of those who acquired land years ago before others were born. Majority of Africans can only afford a place to rent or buy an apartment to live and die, yet 65 percent of the land which is privately owned, is not occupied or in use. 65% of the land known as Africa is privately owned so what we call Africa is less than 25% of the purported land. Majority of Africans, more than 70% of the population are either landless, squatters, rented or living within uninhabitable "50 X 100" square foot land outside commercial areas. African governments claim authority because of votes and collection of taxes, but that does not change the reality. The aim of democracy is hereby exposed. To exploit and deny majority their birth rights. There stands Africa’s democracy.

Today people who live in cities are the well off and if they want to engage in farming they cannot afford land simply because it is privately owned and expensive to buy. The young generation today cannot afford an eighth of an acre. Land today is in the hands of the older generation and their families. In twenty years to come 80% of the population will have no land to call their own and no place to call home. Africa is moving towards a time bomb. Most African nations were shared in pieces and the remaining part sold out to those who could afford. Africa stands more divided by land and property ownership than by origin. For every family land in Africa there is a dispute on ownership. There stands nothing that the poor in the society can afford. The bigger population in this society today has no place to call home yet 65% of land in most African countries is unoccupied and private property. For example, what we may call Africa is the game parks and a few reserved government land, rivers and lakes and children’s playgrounds. the rest of the land are pieces of private land. All that land known as Africa must belong to the state. Only then shall a nation be one. Democracy in Africa is a big lie, it has denied most people the right of citizenry, for example, most people own an identification card and a set of chairs in a rented house, they cannot walk to unoccupied land and build a house or engage in farming because that land is somebody’s nation. It is a nation of the holder of the title deed. Are the landless people citizens because they have identity cards showing they are from this region in a country? These people are not citizens but subjects, taxpayers, voters and a crowd in that nation.

Democracy is in the bullet, a police can shoot you dead to execute justice. When is it legal to kill? When the public kill, they have taken the law into their hands. When the police kill, it is within the law. What is the difference? Mob justice is a decision by many people and better than one man’s conclusive decision with a gun. The police in Kenya were directed to kill in these words, "you are justified to use your fire arms effectively. You have no control where the bullet is going to hit. It can hit the head or the heart even where your aim is to disable." These were orders from an Inspector General of police. What does the government achieve in killing whether a criminal or an innocent? Why must the life of a human being be reduced to the weight of a bullet? Must the bullet be used as a means of judgment? Has the killing brought down crime? Is there another way to end crime or is ruthlessness and killing the only possible human democratic solution? Just shoot, you have the gun you do not need to think, shoot, and if they die you are not responsible. That is the law, an ass, and the ass has no reason. The ass cannot reason, will never reason. The reason of the ass, the law, is to enforce the dictatorship of democracy over the people. It is only in African democracies where the law is an ass. Such orders to one of the most careless and ruthless forces on planet earth to kill shows how much some leaders value their life and disregard the lives and the rights of others on the same planet. The more humane or brutal a system is, it creates an equivalent resembling society. A thief would kill because the consequences of their acts however minor may be death. The state of security in Africa even without the terrorist remains unpredictable. Who can walk across the streets of Nairobi, Johannesburg, Lagos, Mogadishu, Tripoli or any urban or rural areas at night and reach home safe. Why? why is insecurity so poor with high technology available, with more informed people than before and with a bigger police force. When are the African nations going to be safe. Is this how it is supposed to be forever? Should we get used to living in such a state of insecurity and terror? The police serve to arrest or to kill suspects and not criminals, the real criminals are yet to be arrested. The police should kill after judgment is passed. If there is a legal gun to kill it should be given to magistrates to provide justice and shoot those who deserve to die. The police are democratically set to stand tall and as the correct in the society. They cannot be advised when they mistreat the public or take bribes, that would be an offence known as obstructing an officer from performing duty. This may cost one’s life. The public are wrong to the police and the incorrect cannot befriend the correct. The police are to serve to protect the public but are more dangerous to encounter than the terrorist. The terrorist is not frequent to encounter as the police. The police serve to humiliate, sabotage, maim or kill in the pretence of enforcing democracy and its laws. The police work to satisfy themselves and the government. If the police were to end crime, it has multiplied, if they were to protect the people, the people are ambushed behind their back. The police are more feared than criminals. There is no people in Africa protected by the police beside the rich, the foreigner and the politician. The politician is protected from the electorate; the rich and the foreigner are protected to exploit.

I was young and am now old, I have never seen or felt the presence of the police security for my life but I have seen and experienced police brutality arrogance, unnecessary preparedness to fight and humiliate, even where there is peace. The government should protect the people from the police. Most people would better fall into the hands of criminals than of the police. Most Africans would prefer to be sick for a month than be arrested by the police for a day. One would rather pay the heaviest price, if they can afford, to evade the police. Some would prefer to be shot dead than fall to the hands of the police. That is why some innocent people have been shot running from the police. The reason is that the police do not care. They have no affection. The police would not want to know what you are doing that may be superior to a petty issue or no issue on condemning you. What matters to them is what they do, and what they do is humiliation, embarrassment and mockery without limits on the pretest that security matters are sensitive. They ignore the fact that human life is more sensitive than security matters. Police officers have all the advantages over the citizens whom they condemn as if they deserve nothing. The force remains very independent without checks such that whatever they do is justified. The character of the police beats off what is expected of the alleged disciplined forces and their human nature. The training of the police is most ridiculous. When they are passing out training they are made to swear like this I will have no fear, no favor, nor affection; one would wonder what kind of human products are these? what kind of a human being would be without fear, affection or favor. Obvious, a tormenter, a heartless, condemning walking figure of a human being carrying a gun. Their extreme nature of detest, arrogance, corruption, killings, blame for nothing and promise of more than what they will never offer to the society, and take away what they do not deserve. This remains the unresolved issue to the citizens. If the forces were to check on or correct men to be perfect, then they should be perfect. The police should work on drawn guidelines and not on the rule to enforce the law which literary means the use of force to them. Where force is the rule of law, reason will be isolated or ineffective. Force cannot drive reason otherwise it would be a tool in acquiring knowledge. The responsibility given to the police should be manageable and not fragile. The hospitality expected from the forces is given to the corpse. Most people are remanded on petty crimes and end up paying dearly or die in the hands of the police, and that too is democracy. Why should a citizen need a bond or rot in remand because of a bond. Why then are you a citizen? Where would a citizen run to because of crime. What are the benefits of being a citizen? Is not crime human like to err. Citizens who commit crime should have the opportunity to go on with their duties and report to court summons until proven guilty. The remand is worse than jail. What is the reason to remand petty criminals only to make them non productive, feed them for months and end up to release them after they are proven innocent. The act has activated corruption to the highest within the forces. When those remanded are jailed they never come out rehabilitated for the better, but worse than ever. The prisoner, after release appreciate that they did not die in remand or prison, the imprisoning does not change their habits, it is like temporary leave then they turn back ready for bigger crimes. The government never trusts her citizens beside trusting their tax and vote. The system of punishing crime should involve penalty, and payback and not merely locking someone away from the society for a given period. That may instill pain and not reason. A thief should repay back what he had stolen and made to work for it over years as punishment and not merely to be locked to sit idle in a building for years as a way of punishment. Accused people should work and pay back what they took or the cost of damages. That would reduce crime.

In the whole system of democracy, there exists room to escape justice and the government’s opportunity to escape responsibility.

In courts, the scale of justice can be money or political correlation. How does the African law come up with punishing the petty crimes severely and close the eyes to major crimes. It is obvious that the poor commit the minor crimes and the rich commit the big crimes. The democratic system based courts never offer justice but democratic considerations. People lose property, rights, life, opportunities, and dignity for lack of justice. The African courts that offered justice are no more. The African oath system was practical to establish the truth in execution of justice. This was declared null and void. The simple and most realistic form of finding the truth, left no hidden facts. It laid bare the truth without favor to the rich or the poor. Since then there has been no truth in Africa. The African oath, a very simple inexpensive form of offering justice was so accurate and equally punishing for anyone to escape justice. The truth or honesty was the only way out. Today the law is the truth. The person with influential argument receives justice. The truth is not law. The truth is a pure debate and not reality. The government should continuously teach the law to the people. How are the laws applied on those who do not know the rules by those who know them. Those who know the laws are ignorant of the need of knowledge by those who do not know the law. Traditional African courts should be given opportunity to exalt justice