Nigeria's former ruler Olusegun Obasanjo has said democracy is taking root in Africa, but warned that rising political stars would struggle to unseat old leaders unless they join forces during elections.
"If the youth think that they will get into power on a platter, they are not getting it right," Obasanjo told AFP. AFP/File/SIA KAMBOU
Speaking to AFP following the launch in Johannesburg on Wednesday night of a book he co-authored on democracy in Africa, Obasanjo said: “Yes we are ” towards democracy. “Africa will get to where it needs to be,” he predicted. But Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema said that despite democratic progress registered elsewhere on the continent, some countries in the southern African region were moving backwards.
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