Culled from The Daily Observer


We Should Not See America as Sanctuary of Democracy
- Hon Halifa Sallah

by Bakare Muritala &
Momodou Bah

The National Assembly member for Serrekunda Central, Hon Halifa Sallah has
said Africa should not always see America as a "sanctuary of democracy".

Speaking at the International Conference organised by the US-based Alliance
for Democracy in Africa (ADA) at the Senegambia Beach Hotel Tuesday August 6
2002, Hon Sallah said knowledge should be the basis for Africa's democracy
as "we cannot have democracy without a social behaviour".
Democracy itself "is a process which provides for the enlargement of freedom
but which is created out of the struggle of the people against injustices.


"Furthermore, democracy is a question of governance and this should be
morally guided. The human being is a social being that benefits from the
love and care of mothers, and we cannot have democracy without a social
behaviour which includes love and morality".
Honourable Sallah adde that Africa's democracy should be conceptualised and
based on the awareness that "the people own power as they are the
tax-payers".
"It must be institutionalised, and be made a way of life" for through this,
he said, "it becomes the common goal".




Beran S. Jeng


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