As Eswatini rises against its king, its people should be wary of the promise of democracy
Democracy is all good and well, but our neighbour needs to know there are alternatives
24 October 2021 - 00:00
As time runs out for Africa’s last absolute monarch amid a growing clamour for democracy in Eswatini, my mind raced back to a 2013 talk by Chinese venture capitalist and political scientist Eric Xun Li in which he argued that democracy was overrated...
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