BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: WHAT ARE THE MISSING LINKS?

2 " Democracy is no vaccination against poverty "-UNDP 1 " If there is no equal sharing of goods, there can be no equal sharing of power. So, for me, this equal sharing is crucial to the definition of democracy. If democracy is the right to have a decent life, health, education, freedom, and security, then I am a democrat. But I am questioning whether this is really the case in some of the biggest democracies in the World today? "-Nadia Leila Aissaoui 2