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Article: Elections in Ghana are a miserable model for Africa.(Commentary)(Editorials)(Letters)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- January 6, 1997
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Ghana held elections on Dec. 7. Although Richard Soudriette in his Dec. 26 op-ed piece ("Ghana's democracy is a good model for Africa") hails the exercise as a model for Africa, it hardly constitutes something for emulation.
The Dec. 7 election was a charade, masquerading as a "democracy," that military despots in West Africa used to "civilianize" themselves. More tragically, the experiment in Ghana was backed with more than $50 million in Western aid, of which $10 million was awarded to Richard Soudriette's organization, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) to conduct voter registration in Ghana in 1995.
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