10/12/2013 00:00
by RAY FLEMING
SOME 12 million Ghanaians will go to polling stations today. They carry a heavy responsibility. Ghana was the first sub-Saharan colonial country to achieve independence in 1957 and the rest of colonial Africa looked to it to prove that Africa was capable of governing itself; under Kwame Nkruma and others it did not immediately live up to that responsibility but since 1991 it has been a free and stable democracy. So today the voters, the candidates and the parties have the task of confirming that achievement; if they do so they will give encouragement to many who are losing hope that African democracy is not a chimera.
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