President Jacob Zuma’s resignation was, on Thursday, joined by that of another regional leader: Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. The prime minister said at the time that this action was designed “to build a national consensus and to widen the democratic space”. If there is no growth, democracy is less likely and vice versa. Trying simply to baptise us with Western democracy does not work. DMDr Mills interviewed the prime minister at Menelik Palace in Addis Ababa for a forthcoming book on African democracy.

Source: Ethiopian News February 15, 2018 23:26 UTC