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Africa doesn't need democracy, it requires something else, urgent

Democracy became the dominant system of governance across the globe in the early 1990s at the height of the 'Third Wave' of democracy.

Among the most assertive proponents of the system was the US author, Francis Fukuyama, who proclaimed it the final, superior system of government invented by man.

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