Hi Dust and jeenyo i think we are heading the right direction. frist, we managed to identify the root cause of our predicament. our second step is to form system that works for Afric. hardest thing is to identify the problem itself. AS one budhist said "when one knows his unhappiness, one knows his cure." since we know what our problems are, all we need to do is find the cure and use it accordingly. According to Dust, our cure is shar'a. I know it seems like i am abstaining from making any suggestion in terms of what kind of system we should adopt to-------- we must calculate or measure the pros and cons of whatever it is that we need to implent.

Jeenyo, we finally agree with one another. As you stated, we have to redefine the term democracy in order to establish a workable system. In fact i am not qiute sure if the term itself has intrinsic meaning. Angle-_Dust, thanks for agreeing with me. I can see that we both have a critical approach to this topic. You said “democracy is a state of mind.” That is why I said it doesn’t have an intrinsic meaning. It can be practiced the way one sees it fit. In terms of Shari’a, I don’t honestly know if we are ready to adopt it as a political system. Look at our conditions as Muslim Ummal, in terms of our conduct, behaviour and so on. How many of us go to the mosque for every salat? How many of us refrain from what Allah prohibited us? Are we really ready to implement the Shar’a? This is a question that needs to be answered by those who have more knowledge in the realm of Islam. Africa is a very large continent with a different kind of religions, ritual, customs and so on. In other words, Africa is not a predominantly a Muslim. Angle_dust, I am trying to include all the other African countries in this discussion. As Africans we all have one goal—to free ourselves from the colonial legacy. We inherited a system, which is detrimental to our political, economic, and social interest. I am aware that most of Muslim countries need the Shar'a rule. However, this doesn’t mean that all the other Africans must have an Islamic state that practices Shari’a. Unarguably, Islam is what the world needs, because every other system failed to entail a peaceful resolution to the current social unrest in many parts of the world. But we all have to remember that imposing one’s ideology, religion, and culture on others is wrong. Islam doesn’t conger, but wins the heart of the people. Thanks Jeenyo and Angle_Dust for sharing your ideas with me.

Please, do not waste your time on watching CNN, which by the way i called it PNN (Pentagon News Network). I know that most of you aware of the way in which this network and the likes disseminate a false information. But do you know when you constantly watch these networks, you start to believe or consume their lies. It is a repetitive process intended to indoctrinate and brain wash the public, even those who aware of their lies are susceptible to thier deception. Once you hear these lies over and over, subconsciously, you begin to have doubts about truth. their own people are becoming skeptical about these networks. what they are doing is an insult to human intellect.

Hi OGUN, I think you misunderstood my point. I am not insinuating that democracy is the solution to the African problems. On the contrary, I am opposing the notion that democratization, sustained by moderanization theory, is the remedy to our political and economical problem. Remember the advocates of this system (democracy in the western context) have one thing in mind—to exploit other nation. They neither concern nor care about the well being of the others. This is all about power and domination. In fact they want keep to the so-called third world countries in state of dependency, so that they can extract all the resources and so on. I am cynical about the policies set forth by US and the likes. "i might not be politically correct, but i donot and cannot start off the mark with "democracy is the panecea to all". On the contrary what i said was Africa can establish viable political system that could only fit its own norms and values. In other words, the so-called democracy is only applicable to a society whose social structure is based on capitalism mode of production. Africa has culture, which predates the western civilization. What Africa needs is political system that is compatible with the existing social structure. In reality the so-called democracy only works within structural constrains.

Asalaama Alaykum my br I thank you very much for the pictures. As you stated, we got caught up in this dunya, and therefore we need to remind ourselves what Allaah prepared for us in hereafter depending on our deeds.

I am refering this to jeenyo's remark.

I totally disagree with you. First, Africa has been western's sphere of influence.Yes Africa's economic, social and political stagnation could be partly blaimed on itself. But you seem to be forgetting that Africa has never been free from outside influences. The British went to Africa because Africans were "barabrians" who wanted to be saved from their babaric act through christianization. Today the some policy is pursued by the western---democratizing the region would brign solution to its problem Let me remind you that the process of democratization is not static. It needs to evolve the same way it did in the western hemisphere. To most of the African countries democracy is an alien system. The implication is that Africa can establish viable political system that could only fit its own norms and values. But this needs time to evolve. The western countries were successful in adopting and sustaining a democratic system; because both the people and the state respected the social contract between the rulers and the ruled. Due to the external forces (western), Africa never had the time establish state legitimacy. legitimacy can be defined as a psychological relationship between the governed and the governors that engenders a belief that state’s leaders and institution have a right to exercise political authority over the rest of the society. Post-independence African was never givern the time to reinstate its political system. African countries came out of the colonial rule and fell into authoritarian rule. The African people never had the opportunity to experience any other political system, except that of their authoritarian regime--inherited from the colonial legacy.