Abstract:
A strong reason democracy continues to be favored in the 21st century is because it is presented as
more fluid and amendable to political evolution in digitization. While digitization of governance is an
advantage worth exploring, in Africa, Western democracy remains a challenge especially for young
and experimental governments and particularly that the system lacks indigenous organism in origin. A
fundamental thrust of this chapter therefore is to interrogate how nations of Africa are grappling with
the many variables of democracy as a Sphinx, how good governance, postmodernist demands jump in
the fray of theories and practices to shape the form of governance evolving in Africa. The chapter is a
positional outlook on the development as they unfold. It suggests that though there is a speed deficit of
Africa catching up with the hypothetical perfect Western system’s demand, the dawn of e-governance
in the continent should be uniquely organismic to sync with Africa’s heterogeneous cultural diversity in
order to achieve desired results of speed and all-around development.
