Our Democracy Talk Show (07 January 2015)
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Hong Kong protesters and police clash
Pro-democracy protesters tried to surround the government headquarters in the Admiralty district of Hong Kong. After failing to shut down the government, pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong announced that he and two other members of his group will go on a hunger strike until the citys chief executive restarts dialogue on electoral reform.--By Thea Breite
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Pro-democracy protesters gather at Tamar, near the government headquarters in the Admiralty district of Hong Kong on December 1, 2014. (Dale de la Rey/AFP/Getty Images)
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Tensions soared in the third month of pro-democracy protests. (Dale de la Rey/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pro-democracy protesters face-off with police. (Dale de la Rey/AFP/Getty Images)
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Protesters build a barricade in an escalator leading to parts of the Central Government Office complex that the protesters tried to surround. (Jerome Favre/EPA)
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Adeoye Oyewole
Sometimes I sit down and stretch my imagination to pre-colonial Africa before Nigeria came into being through the process of amalgamation. Africa, at a time, was a force to be reckoned with in terms of civilisation.
Education, arts and science were well developed in Africa before the colonial masters came. We had our social welfare system and a form of government. Africa had demonstrated a form of primitive democracy with inbuilt checks and balances long before colonisation. The colonial masters amalgamated different nations in a geographical entity called Nigeria. They formulated different versions of constitutional apparatus to administer the geographical entity they created. The amalgamation of several nations had its profound psychological consequences, which became profound at independence. Prior to independence, the conflict embedded in the amalgamation project was latent until we achieved self-governance. At independence, our social welfare institutions were poorly developed because the colonial masters had displaced our poorly growing but native social welfare institutions.
Schools were organised for minimal literacy for the natives to run errands for the colonial masters and the prisons were glorified lunatic asylums reserved for those who revolted against the colonial process. It is noteworthy that a number of our earliest psychiatric institutions grew out of these lunatic asylums reserved for political offenders.
The colonial masters, with their psychiatrists, banished natives into asylums after some spurious non-empirical diagnosis of some mental illness. They had a theory of an African mind that could not cope with colonialism, hence developing mental illness and banished to the asylum not for treatment but for social immobilisation.
The inability of our post-independent elite group to forge a common ground in the leadership of the nation, possibly as a consequence of contending social forces, led to several political upheavals which snowballed into the disruption of development of social welfare institutions, with profound negative impact on the mental wellbeing of the citizens. Governance became dislocated by nepotism and self-aggrandisement, to the neglect of institutions that should facilitate social welfare.
Prior to the first military intervention, our social welfare institutions never acquired a culture of their own, as they were scanty, inadequate and poorly funded because they were not the immediate priorities of the political elite class. The military governed by decrees that never took into consideration the feedbacks from the people and gave very modest attention to the development of social welfare institutions.
The military years were marked with grave socio-economic difficulties that dislocated families, resulting in increased rates of abuse of illicit drugs among our youths, teenage pregnancies and school dropouts, to mention a few.
Apart from poor physical infrastructures, our social welfare institutions were being run by discordant cultural software that could not make a tangible difference in the lives of the ordinary citizens. As a nation, we have been floundering without a sense of history and destination that has impacted negatively on our mental health. Our universities and polytechnics are turning out graduates that are unemployable. The hospitals, schools, prisons and other social institutions have deteriorated without creative leadership.
The pre-colonial rulership model frustrated the potential of the ordinary citizens that could have been beneficial in nation building. This culture was also reinforced by long years of military rule where only a few privileged elites determined the fate of others without any mechanisms to channel inputs from the ordinary citizens.
Members of Parliament stand in Westminster Hall, London, holding pens in solidarity with those affected by the Charlie Hebdo massacre in France, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015. French police hunted Thursday for two heavily armed men one with a terrorism conviction and a history in jihadi networks in the methodical killing of 12 people at a satirical newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/PA,Tim Sculthorpe)(The Associated Press)
The words "I am Charlie" are spelled out with candles at a gathering in solidarity with those killed in an attack at the Paris offices of the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015, outside the French Consulate in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)(The Associated Press)
A tribute to the people killed at Paris offices of weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, is fixed to the wall outside the French Embassy in London, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015. Masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a weekly newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, methodically killing 12 people at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo, Wednesday, including the editor, before escaping in a car. It was France's deadliest postwar terrorist attack.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)(The Associated Press)
British police officers stand in the rain to hold a two minute silence to show their respect for all those murdered in Wednesday's terrorist attack in Paris, including two police officers, at New Scotland Yard in London, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015. Masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a weekly newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, methodically killing 12 people Wednesday, including the editor, before escaping in a car. It was France's deadliest postwar terrorist attack. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)(The Associated Press)
Regis Denon, of Paris, France, holds a sign in remembrance at a gathering in solidarity with those killed in an attack at the Paris offices of the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015, outside of the French Consulate in San Francisco. A handful of participants in the Wednesday night vigil in San Francisco's financial district are lighting candles that spell out "Je Suis Charlie," while others deposit bouquets of white carnations and red roses or leave pens by the consulate's door. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)(The Associated Press)
LONDON From Berlin to Bangkok, tens of thousands took a stand Thursday against living in fear, as rallies defended the freedom of expression and honored the victims of a Paris newspaper attack.
Viewing the Paris attack as a cold-blooded assault on democracy, people from all walks of life journalists and police officers, politicians and students turned out in cities around the world, holding up pens and joining hands.
Many held placards proclaiming "Je Suis Charlie" "I am Charlie" a slogan that went viral on social media within hours of Wednesday's terror attack on the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people dead.
Germany's biggest-selling daily, Bild, filled the top half of its front page with the headline "Cowardly Murderers!" and printed a black back page with the words "Je suis Charlie."
"The only thing we can do against this is to live fearlessly," editor-in-chief Kai Diekmann said in an editorial. "Our colleagues in Paris have paid the ultimate price for freedom. We bow before them."
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Defending democracy: 'I Am Charlie' protesters rally globally to support right to free speech
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Hope You Guys Enjoyed I think the edit still needs a little work on it but I think it #39;s alright for a promo and I hope you guys hade a good Christmas and a good New Years.
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