Africa and ...
CONSTITUTION
They are wrong who argue that Africans have little respect for the Constitution. It disregards the ties of these peoples to consolidations; they were written or not. Custodians of traditions and cultures, sometimes centuries, Africans are steeped in "law and order." They are, so to speak, fallen into being small. For out of the womb as the child sucks the habits and customs that will regulate all its future existence. Symbolic representation and it will take place after frame founder of social life. It is therefore reassuring that base, which reduces anxiety, and cancels a proliferation of messages, the West knows something, carries the seeds of paranoia, schizophrenia, close to the man involved with others; interpreter and constantly adjusts its position with others. Now then for foreign life in Africa is a real obstacle course, binding and countless signs of marked trails. The African, he, it moves easily as a fish in water. For in the apparent chaos surrounding a common code organizes performances and play roles.
From the point of modernity in Africa-is Colonization! - The native was quickly informed that the Constitution was a instrument that looked strangely, if we collect all of them, scattered in profusion of orality. And it therefore had the power to crystallize, fixing them physically, so lasting, laws, rights and obligations. You could also insert the provisions cultural-traditional-customary law! All at a great gain information that oral tradition could not provide. As, by its nature, the "word of mouth" is characterized by an inevitable and considerable loss of information. Now then - the words fly away, but writings remain - the oral transmission of messages has never rested on that memory is notoriously unreliable recognition, and automatic repetition of manners whose time often erodes the wealth. When it does not simply misrepresents the message.
Since Africans have with the Constitution a passionate relationship. As if their lives depended on it. In fact the blood of the brave son of the Continent, and even more of the less illustrious, was poured on the altar of legalism. Since the political powers of independence to the present day and forty years for the majority of African countries, have always manipulated the Framework Act for purposes of continuity. For the time they believed, wanted, and sometimes said that they could last. For he was now extinct, to proclaim the eternal faith of a constitution tailored. And the people who believed in the Constitution-to lend credence to, or pretend to believe. It was the era of the "founding fathers". And Africa, false tears, just witnessed the disappearance of one of the last of these dinosaurs. After forty years of reign! The ultimate specimen of these monsters unjustly deemed sacred, always runs the woods of power, determined to give the lie to the fatal and fatal destiny of a species decimated. Gold Thus the only determinant of powerful men want: power know is filled, always !
The Founding Fathers were, for some, fought for independence. Others just waited patiently, or appropriately-that power should fall into their laps. Inadvertently, or by a show of force, far more effective.
constitutions "turnkey" nailed their seats on the base of power. Became "legally" they forgot the immovable estate. This omission constitutes a major cause of political instability in Africa!
The wind of democratization of the years ninety aeration some African constitutions. Exit the "Party-State", unique in its time for the "multiparty" umbrella term for a "reengineering" of national environmental policy. In truth, a conversion front: the opposition, paid from the budget of the President assured it that the legitimacy conferred an election "democratic" puisqu'ouverte all. But for the benefit of one, the outgoing president ... and soon returning! All this, of course, in strict compliance with the Constitution because people attach great importance to the Constitution; not his respect ...
Things, thankfully, have changed considerably these days: no more think to ignore the prescriptions and proscriptions of the Principal Act. The international community must ensure the scrupulous implementation of the latter, exposing offenders to multiple sanctions which only the Security Council (UN) has the secret. Small malignant
in Africa (but also in Latin America) were quick to find the relentless parade: to the idiot. Respect the Constitution, everyone knows, is to observe what is written. Period. Now therefore there is no mention we must do more than that. Thus our apprentice sorcerers have found a way to blow the lock of the controversial multiple presidential terms generally limited to two consecutive. Nothing to impress the new geniuses of politics. This is to amend the law when it has a parliamentary majority. Easy, it was not enough to think of it. The Act prohibited? No problem, we go to referendum, the people decide ! And like this, strangely, "decides" always in the direction of the one who comes out whole and must go ... But if none of these constraints is not enough, even if the action the referendum in this case is proscribed by the Constitution, the president uses his "presidential prerogatives". He dissolved the Constitutional Court. To reconstruct a new better disposed towards him. Voila, voila, the law is respected. As for his "spirit" ... But what spirit do we talk then? It is politics. Not religion!
Nothing can stop the democratic progress in Africa. Too bad for Westerners who obviously lack of ingenuity. Their political leaders have much to learn from their African counterparts, which have known, as large, remove all the springs of the Constitution. In the second millennium few African presidents at the end of term have resisted the temptation of "loyalty" to exploit the Constitution, to reopen his texts to amend them, pervert them, make them say, not the other way (they are these Africans not crazy!), but "about" what they meant. But then
constitution does not speak. He told. Preferably with the assistance of the people. Whatever perjury, when I have never vowed not to perjure himself. Unless the fact is explicitly written in the Constitution. And even
... If there are things that follow in Africa the Constitution is. We love him more than his neighbor, we respect his texts strictly speaking, they're made to order a new one once in power, we end by asking him forever!
EMERY G. UHINDU-GINGALA
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