George Ngwane

Benin: From Liberal to Social Democracy

By Mwalimu George Ngwane

Benin is undeniably one of Africa’s most successful stories in liberal or electoral democracy. From 1990 when she became the first African country to institute a sovereign National Conference, Benin has continued to employ all innovative and endogenous democratic strategies that distinguish her from the continent’s identity of political insolvability. The solid foundation laid by the conference in February 1990 provided the Beninese people with a nationalistic vision that focused on the power of alternatives through the ballot box rather than the principle of self-perpetration through constitutional tinkering.

Creative industries, Cultural entrepreneurship and Political statehood

(An Invitation to Anglophone Cameroon Diasporans)

By Mwalimu George Ngwane

Kwame Nkrumah’s battle-cry of “Seek ye first the political kingdom……..” is as relevant today as it was when he made this proclamation fifty years ago. But so are Mao Tse-tung’s Cultural Revolution movement and Emperor Meiji Tenno’s (Mutsuhito) endogenous industrialisation principle that drastically transformed the political statehoods of China and Japan respectively into the superpowers that they are today.