The Profile of the Main Opposition Candidate Is Issa Tchiroma Bakary a Distractor or a Liberator? By The Afrisocrat Political Desk | 2025 Presidential Election Special Early Life & Education Born on 10 September 1949 in Garoua, northern Cameroon, Issa Tchiroma Bakary grew up in a respected family where his father served as an advisor to the Lamido. This upbringing instilled in him deep values of responsibility, discipline, and service to the community. After early schooling in Douala, he pursued technical training in transport and materials engineering before traveling to Paris. At the University of Paris (Jussieu), he prepared for a PhD in mathematics before redirecting his focus to mechanical engineering at ISMCM, graduating as a railway engineer. Returning home, he worked at Regifercam in Douala, embodying the discipline and pragmatism of a technocrat committed to service. Imprisonment & Political Rise In...
AFRISOCRACY VS. DEMOCRACY: WHY AFRICA NEEDS ITS OWN SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE Introduction For more than six decades, Africa has been trapped in a borrowed political system—Western democracy. Imported during colonial rule and imposed after independence, this model has failed to deliver justice, development, or liberation for African people. Instead, it has produced weak institutions, puppet leaders, and endless cycles of corruption and poverty. It is time to ask a bold question: Does Africa truly need democracy—or does Africa need Afrisocracy? Democracy: A Foreign Cage Democracy in Africa has been reduced to empty rituals—ballot papers, multi-party elections, and promises of “freedom” that never materialize. In reality: It empowers corrupt elites who serve foreign powers, not their people. It sustains neo-colonialism, where Western governments control African economies and policies through aid, debt, and manipulation. It divides nations along tribal and regional lines, breeding conflict rat...