Khama, presidential term limits in Africa

Leaders of the liberation struggles were celebrated throughout Africa as an air of optimism filled the atmosphere across the whole continent. Poor Africans who were brutally dispossessed of land and basic human rights, looked up to liberation struggle heroes as their only source of  hope to emancipate them from the life of dehumanising poverty and a horrifying culture of rightlessness.

Lo and behold, the so-called liberation struggle heroes turned their backs on the very same people they have professed to be liberating. Instead of making radical post-colonial emancipatory socio- economic and political reforms characterised by robust democratic institutions, many liberation struggle heroes dismantled any institution that showed any democratic characteristics.