Lets Begin this from our own mother land Ghana.
In the mist of good people of Ghana there have been some interesting debates going on in this forum about the merits of Chieftaincy institution in Ghana. While some arguments favor the chieftaincy institution as worthy of its usage for development to incorporate traditional values, others push down the institution as archaic and most retrogressive and undemocratic. Others argue that there are too many problems with chieftaincy, especially in Ghana, while in essence without realizing the occurrences of some serious troubles infringed on us by democratic processes in Africa in general. Some do not necessarily realize that the establishment of chieftaincy institution takes precedence over the advent of modern democracy. It is undeniable fact that such issues as occurrences where political parties clashing each other in Zaire-Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Mali, and Kenya purport a glimpse of distasteful flavor of politics and the entire democratic machinery in Africa.
Democracy
Democracy is a system of governance whereby the views and wishes of the people are considered in decision making whether directly or indirectly.
Democracy is a value-bound political system whose aim is the realization of values rather than a system based on neutral rules of procedure. Therefore, democracy is more than the sum of formal procedures and laws. On this basis, I dare to say that the process of choosing a chief among the Akans also involves a democratic process.
