He highlights the need to balance both systems, incorporating traditional wisdom into modern democratic frameworks to enhance governance effectiveness and societal harmony.
Multi-party politics is a system where multiple parties compete for government control, currently dominant in Ghana. Traditional governance, on the other hand, involves leadership by chiefs and traditional councils, predating and coexisting with modern political structures.
Osabarima Kwaku Adu, in his write-up, examines the strengths and weaknesses of multi-party politics in comparison to traditional governance. He argues that while multi-party democracy promotes competition, accountability, and political participation, it often leads to division, inefficiency, and instability.
In contrast, traditional governance, rooted in indigenous leadership structures, prioritizes consensus, communal decision-making, and continuity, fostering social cohesion and stability. He highlights the need to balance both systems, incorporating traditional wisdom into modern democratic frameworks to enhance governance effectiveness and societal harmony.
Dive into Osabarima Kwaku Adu’s thought-provoking analysis below:
The situation in Africa needs a change of ruling from multi-party systems to cultural and traditional. Ghana can start with the Cultural and Traditional system of government because the Kings and Queens have held on to their integrity since the advent of the Arabs/Europeans. Africa and Africans had been attacked in various ways to destroy our way of life, belief systems and lands but have sustained to maintain good over evil and must now take our stand to govern ourselves through Kings and Queens.
Reasons:
- The political parties are representing Western Ideologies incompatible with our lifestyles.
- Our resources are taken without respect for our lands, water bodies, animals and the people.
- The power of Kings and Queens is shared with politicians who do not have inner feelings for the people because of their business mindset to amass wealth, but not the people on the lands
- The education received from colonialism is breeding a corruptible generation because our cultural values are trampled on. No respect.
- The social media has become a tool to screw up all the training children get from their parents because of wrong interpretation of democracy.
Now, the Cultural Black Restoration is humbly appealing to the President of the Republic of Ghana, Hon John Dramani Mahama and the NDC government to discuss with the citizens of Ghana the way forward to hand over the National to Kings and Queens to rule. In this sense, Nananom are humbly expected to unite strongly to feel the plight of the people as Custodians of the Lands to find answer to our divided problems.
The Home Coming programs should continue to tap knowledge from the diaspora to work things out together. There should be Cultural Institutions to help Africans at home and abroad to love supporting Nananom in their new move to rule.
Ghana is the gateway to Africa in and out since Slavery, so should be the first to go back to our roots.
*The author, Osabarima Kwaku Adu is the Chief Executive Officer of the Black Restoration Foundation based in Amsterdam, Holland.
Story: Lawal Mohammed
