Tendai Biti , Former Zimbabwe Finance Minister (2009-2013)

SIDEBAR ON SOFT POWER

Mr. Biti was generous with his time to discuss soft power and Africa. Limited time and choppy but I think you can appreciate it.

Mauritius piece was a tad bit problematic….The somersault on which African state got a proper flogging…..

Panel Members

Alain Antil , Director of Ifri's Sub-Saharan Africa Center, Moderator

Greg Mills , Director, Brenthurst Foundation

Tendai Biti , Former Zimbabwe Finance Minister

Thierry Vircoulon , Research Associate at Ifri

Olusegun Obasanjo , Former President of Nigeria

Where is Democracy in Africa?

This was the theme for the Ifri Conference on June 7th. We were invited to the conference and also fortunate to ask the former president a question on the current state of Nigeria. The conference touched on elections, political freedoms, authoritarianism and the “strong man/dominant parties” problem. This conference was quite in depth with the occurrences of democracy, election fraud in all 54 states of Africa.

“The process from dictatorship to Democracy is bloody...
For Africa, it is bloody, complicated, corrupt and sometimes rest in ambiguity. ...Kagame anyone??
”

— Democracy in Africa

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The recording is in French and English but very easy to follow. Apologies for the recording quality.

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