Consider the observation of US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in Dakar, as described by aljazeera: "Speaking at Dakar's University of Cheikh Anta Diop, she said that coups and power grabs had reduced the count of full electoral democracies on the continent to 19 in 2012 from 24 in 2005." Nineteen (19) democracies in a continent of 54 countries! I would like to have a list of the countries that are currently described as democratic in Africa. Let's see: Nigeria, Liberia, Egypt (?), Tunisia (?), South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, Ghana, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Tanzania. I count 12. Which are the others. It should be noted that all Francophone African countries are dictatorships. Rwanda is also a dictatorship. For more, see Foreign Policy's "Failed States Index."
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