Elections will make sense only if voters question candidates

The setting of the previous venue for the Presidential Debate. [File, Standard] 

Five-minute democracies have their limitations. We knew this when we voted for Article 1 of the Constitution. With the elections 37 days away, several communities have begun to exercise their right to interview political candidates. What are they saying so far? 

The first elections under British colonial rule happened in 1920. Only settlers of European, Indian, and Arab descent voted. It took four decades of anti-colonial resistance for everyone to have the right to vote. Unlike American electoral history where it took 100 years for women to vote, African women and men voted together for the first time in the 1961 General Election.