In his weekly column for the Vatican newspaper, Father Giulio Albanese, who writes on African affairs, critiqued African democracy.
In “La grammatica del potere” [The grammar of power], Father Albanese analyzed recent elections in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and Tanzania and discussed “electoral authoritarianism,” in which “established leaders are regularly reconfirmed with overwhelming percentages, while a divided or marginalized opposition struggles to present itself as a real alternative.”