Guinea: “Democracy, Backwards”  · Global Voices
Abdoulaye Bah

Guinean novelist Tierno Monénembo, who won the French literary award Prix Renaudot in 2008, examines the early record of  the new President of Guinea, Prof. Alpha Conde, writing [fr] in an opinion piece on Slate Afrique: “Beaten up and imprisoned at a whim. Nominated and dismissed at a whim. All this is taking place in a flurry of decrees and counter decrees, which could be summarized as a quaint folk custom if it did not involve the future of an entire country.”