For once, rather than expecting the usual lectures on democracy and good governance, Kenya will be in the position of handing them down. In more recent times, following the catastrophic failure of attempts to impose democracy by force of arms in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US has seemed much less eager to police democracy in Africa. US democracy was broken way before Trump got into office and, in a sense, it was inevitable that someone like him would eventually rise up to challenge it. As Trevor Noah, host of the satirical news programme The Daily Show, says, Trump is “the blacklight on American democracy”, showing up all its flaws. Trump is the test of American democracy and so far, it is a test the US is failing.

Source: The Star February 14, 2019 21:56 UTC