Correspondingly, election-monitoring has become a new growth industry: observers and monitors from various Western governments and private organizations have become the midwives for delivering democracy and peace in Africa. Interestingly, the very Western powers - the United States and others - which have stymied democratization and undermined peace, by supporting repressive regimes in Africa in pursuit of their "perceived national interest" have suddenly been transformed into agents ef democratization.
Bado bara letu la Afrika imekwama katika matope ya unyonge inachoendelezwa na sekta ya kimataifa ya kufanya kazi iliotekwa nyara na mfumo wa ubeberu inaopinga vikali adili za umoja wa Afrika. Kusema kweli, taarifa ya hivi majuzi kutoka idara ya ulinzi huko Ufaransa yanena kwamba msukumo wa kuleta umoja baina ya Waafrika ni kinyume ya matakwa, maslahi na sera za Kimagharibi.