Many Afrikans, especially the mentally enslaved, would be shocked to learn that before the white man set foot on our shores, we had a robust democracy that was grouded on the Afrikan Constitutional Law, the Fundamental Rights of the Afrikan People - the present day equivalent is the bill of rights, a relatively new concept in Western societies - and a well balanced judicial system. The Afrikan Constitution was basically a "body of fundamental theories, principles and practices drawn from the customary laws that governed Black Afrikan societies from the earliest times" (Williams).
Our brand of democracy ensured cohesion and unity amongst us, and, as a result, it was only after centuries of unsuccessful attempts that the white man, through trickery, finally managed to conquer, enslave and colonize us. And to ensure that he continues to have total control over us, he imposed on us his own brand of democracy, namely, multi-party democracy (MPD), an extremely divisive political system completely divorced from our Afrikan values. Unfortunately, MPD is now entrenched in the psyche of many Batswana to the extent that, to them, an alternative to the system cannot exist, thanks to Western education, media and its Afrikan acolytes for ceaselessly drumming this falsehood into their heads.
