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ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO, AN OUTSIDER WHO SUGGESTED THAT MULTI-PARTY DEMOCRACY WOULD BE GOOD FOR AFRICA RISKED BEING LABELLED "NEO-COLONIALIST." THERE WAS A CONSENSUS THAT AFRICA WAS DIFFERENT AND WAS DEVELOPING ITS OWN FORMS OF DEMOCRACY, MORE SUITED TO ITS HISTORY AND CULTURE. SUDDENLY, TOWARDS THE END OF THE 1980'S, THE ARGUMENT WAS REVERSED. THE NEO-COLONIALIST LABEL WAS STUCK ON ANYONE WHO EVEN HINTED THAT MULTI-PARTY DEMOCRACY WAS NOT SUITABLE FOR AFRICA. TO SUGGEST THAT AFRICA SHOULD HAVE A DIFFERENT TYPE OF DEMOCRACY IMPLIED THAT AFRICA WAS NOT MATURE ENOUGH FOR DEMOCRACY. SUDDENLY, AFRICANS WERE ASKING, "IF DEMOCRACY IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD, WHY ISN'T IT GOOD ENOUGH FOR AFRICA?" THE SUDDEN RUSH TO DEMOCRACY RAPIDLY UPSET THE MILITARY AND ONE-PARTY STATE RULE THAT HAD DOMINATED AFRICA SINCE THE 1970'S.