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Lessons From Bassirou Diomaye Faye's Election As Senegalese President - Mutebuka

11 months agoWed, 27 Mar 2024 13:29:08 GMT
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Lessons From Bassirou Diomaye Faye's Election As Senegalese President - Mutebuka

Brighton Mutebuka, a UK-based Zimbabwean academic, asserts that the election of Bassirou Diomaye Faye as the President of Senegal underscores several critical factors that contribute to the success of young African politicians in elections.
These factors include an independent electoral body, minimal intervention by the security establishment, and a populist political message.

Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a relatively unheralded 44-year-old opposition leader, secured an impressive 53.7% of the votes in Senegal’s presidential election held recently, making him the youngest elected president in Africa.

Faye’s victory reflects the youth’s frustration with high unemployment and concerns about governance in the West African nation.

Commenting on this development, Mutebuka acknowledges that while it remains uncertain whether the Pan-Africanism and anti-colonial sentiment that propelled Faye into office can extend to Southern Africa, the possibility of change exists when the electoral body operates independently and the military refrains from propping up incumbents. Wrote Mutebuka:

Lessons From Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s Election As Senegalese President

1. In Africa, perhaps sub-Saharan Africa, age is no longer a barrier to ascendancy to the highest office.

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2. Whilst there is no guarantee that what happened in Senegal can be replicated elsewhere, particularly pertaining to the strength of feeling vis-à-vis Pan-Africanism & anti-colonial sentiment, it seems that there is a general trend in that direction which can be deployed to tap into young voters.

3. Perhaps the strength of feeling / relative radicalism is more pronounced in West Africa where we have witnessed wildly / radically anti-French coups which have achieved resonance with the rank & file citizens in Mali, Burkina Faso & Niger.

4. It is not clear at this point whether or not such sentiments can extend to the rough & tumble of Southern African politics, especially in Zimbabwe.

5. @Julius_S_Malema has clearly been doing well by championing a populist pro-poor & pro-Russia & China agenda & by definition, anti-West. What is clear is that he has not been doing well enough nationally to threaten to torpedo the prevailing political orthodoxy & thus upend @MYANC’s dominance.

6. In Zimbabwe there’s an entrenched military-industrial complex in power and there are solid grounds that but for that interference in political matters, regime change would have taken place in elections which took place in 2002, 2005, 2008, 2013, 2018 & 2023.

7. Zambia, Botswana, Namibia & South Africa are, in comparison to Mozambique, Angola, Lesotho, Swaziland & DRC, relatively stable democracies where the will of the people can roughly be expected to prevail, bar one or two considerations.

8. It would appear that the key ingredients for transition to take place are: an independent electoral body, lack of intervention by the security establishment and a sound / populist political message which galvanises the masses & captures the prevailing mood / resonates with the grassroots.

Conclusion

Whilst it is clear that West Africa is a hotbed of anti-French political sentiments, it’s unclear whether or not such undercurrents also permeate the underbelly of Southern African politics. Democracy is still clearly a work in progress in the region – perhaps it could be said in retreat.

Liberation Struggle political parties still hold sway but largely through exploiting their struggle credentials via conflating / blurring the boundaries between party & state institutions – which makes for unstable democracies, and fluid & uncertain political futures.

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22 Comments

🏃‍♀️ Chi baby Che Zanu 🌊 · 11 months ago
The biggest lesson is that strategic ambiguity doesn't exist in the books of politicial sciences
wastak · 11 months ago
Saka chii chinoshanda
Ndini · 11 months ago
Apa hapasi kutaurwa zveZanupf or zve CCC ndati vanhu hawasi kudya nhoko dzezvironda here, imariyi yatiri kushandisa muno kutenga tweeelion for box of matches. Asi unoona kunge zvakanaka **** ramumus vako.
wastak · 11 months ago
ziguvhu rako
wastak · 11 months ago
Kana ndisina guvu handikwanise kurarama saka wati radii guvu nekuti ndochokwadii chiripo hondo haina chainobatsira chinja pfungwa dzako uwone zvirimberi madhara Aya arikukushandisai ivo vachiguta vashoma vanoguta tarisa uwone state of road network, infrastructure, industrial, health payiko patinoti apa asi ivo vanozvitengera zvavanoda tarisa uwone ma VX TOYOTA anotsika pese iwe wakatenga honda fit unowona hupenyu hwako sewabudirira vanhu vaya vakatiisa speed limit inoiswa pamotokarii vanoziva kuti zvinhu zvakatanga kufamba mushe hapana achavagwadama corruption inoitwa pachena kunge kupinda muchimbuzi
prosper masuku · 11 months ago
and vanokwira ntege that's why vasinanyaya yese yokugadzira maroads
KG · 11 months ago
west WEST AFRICA IS NOT SOUTHERN AFRICA THEREFORE MUTEBUKAS WISHFUL THINKING IS NOT WORTHY COMMENTING . IF HE DREAMS OF THAT HAPPENING IN ZIMBABWE, HE SHOULD THINK TWICE. MAYBE HE'S NOT AWARE OF THE SITUATION THAT BROUGHT ABOUT ZIMBABWE. OURS IS PERCULAR COUNTRY ALTOGETHER. WE HAVE SO MUCH AT STAKE. IMPERIALIST FORCES ARE BREATHING HARD ON US TO REPOSSESE OUR FARMS THROUGH A PUPPET REGIME CHANGE. SO WE FOR ZANUPF TO SAFEGUARD OUR LAND PERIOD. UNTIL A PEOPLE CENTRED AND A HOME GROWN OPPOSITION. THAT DOESN'T HARBOUR IMPERIALIST MANUOVERS IS FOUND, ZANUPF WILL CONTINUE TO WIN AND BE A FORMIDABLE ZIMBABWE MAIN POLITICAL PLAYER.
wastak · 11 months ago
Sei nguva dzose pa chingoti pakataurwa zvinhu zvinoita kuti nyika iyenderere munotanga kutaura zve hondo heee nyika yakauya sei iwe zimbabwe yaina kurwa hondo yakafanana nenyika dziya dzeku west africa ndokwakava ne hondo huru yakadarika yemunyika saka kana vanhu vachitaura zvinhu zvinoita kuti nyika ngaiwane munhu anoita kuti vanhu vawane kufara vadye vagute not zviriko izvi unoti inyika inoita marii dzineazita akasiyana dzisingashande asi iri nyika imwe iyoyo wototaura kuti heee takarwa hondo kuti zvidii makarwirei hondo yacho kunyararidza vanoda kusimudza musoro chii chakasiyana nezvaiitwa Nana smith takagona kuchinja mazita Ema street nekuti vanhu vagone kufamba munzvimbo dzaiirambidzwa nevarungu but what about economically dololo
Anonymous · 11 months ago
Watauga chokwadi chabhowa maboorangoma ohwa kupopota kkkkkk.
Wuto · 11 months ago
Yaa ndabvuma kune vanhu vakashata @yoyoyo mukombe watora face kunge dhodhî ranaiwa nemvura
super · 11 months ago
imi mose munonyora tunyaya tweku nyepa kuda kupesanisa E D na vice wake muri kurota vanhu vaye chinhu one ndikuudzei I social media iye
analist pycckn · 11 months ago
Faye akazopinda bcz he was the only main opposition leader akazosara achienda nemusanga mus**** mekusungwa kwaSonko otherwise chaingonzi real opposition ndochaidiwa muSenegal(Dakar) needless to say on fair grounds aisamira na Sonko. Ko mudhara Ramaphosa ukutya MK party here kkk chegore rino ma1
ladzo · 11 months ago
Furthermore Faye wants to incline to Russia than colonial French imperial cluthes
... · 11 months ago
@wuto.... brace yrself for another coup very soon
Führer · 11 months ago
Mukuchemera mukaka wakadeuka Kare na Chamisa kamaitemba kasina direction . Chemai mine tariro pamwe pachauya and direction kupfura Chamisa.
wuto · 11 months ago
@wuto garo ziva kuti chimwe nechimwe chinenguva yacho chisingaperi chinoshura one day vamwe vachifara sezvaurikufara iwe 😭😭😭😭😭
karinga usavi · 11 months ago
@ukwane true
WUTO · 11 months ago
The problem is munhu wamunoda kuti ahwine aka loser munoti it wasn't free and fair ion support Zanu pf zvangu but yakarongeka
Dhadza · 11 months ago
Chamisa wacho kutoita funny nehupenyu hwevanhu vake.havachina direction.Pane party isina vatengesi here?iye anavo muZANU .vapfanha havana deal too much experiment.
Anonymous · 11 months ago
This is all nonsensical, trying to be knowledga le about an issue happening far away. Almost all politicians who have led heir countries, have been young at one point or another. So there is nothing spectacular about this Senegal fellow winning an election.
... · 11 months ago
nonsense

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