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Why democracy is on trial in Africa

By Raila Odinga

As the Berlin wall started falling in Europe and new nations emerged out of the collapsed Soviet Empire, the western world cheered the triumph of democracy and the demise of what Ronald Reagan once called “the evil empire”.

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