SOCRATES OLYMPIO
GHANA

This afternoon, I found myself in a roundtable about Democracy.  I had wanted to be in the Education roundtable.  The idea of convening a session on democracy seemed unnecessary to me.  How could the world's decision-makers maintain ideas of parallelism in policy and ideology?

When my opinion was asked, I bluntly said, "Democracy doesn't exist.  It is not  representative of the masses who strive to uphold it,  but rather a rock for power-aspiring people who seek refuge behind it."