FREE ESSAY ON PARTY POLITICS IN AFRICA

PARTY POLITICS IN AFRICA

Political parties are a group of people with a defined programme organised to capture
political power or stay in it through elections to control personnel and policies of
government. This form of government was introduced to africa in general and ghana in
particular by the colonial imperialists and it's a form of western ideology which was not
known to the ghanaian society until the advent of colonialism and it's aftermath. 
Although political parties play important roles and affairs of the modern political
affairs of ghana like recruiting of political leadership, aggregation of interests, goal
formation, socialization and political education, articulation of ideas and intergrate of
norms in the society to mention but a few but then they posed serious problems to our
society because they are alien and a legacy bequeated to ghanaian politics by
colonialism.
This was because colonialism was itself an arbitrary and therefore the idea of oneness
towards state building itself will be arbitrary since ghana was composed of several
ethnic groups and cultures. Colonialism didn't bridge the gaps between the ethnic groups
to enhance our use of political party system to govern the people like the western
imperialists. For example the united states has long provided a bridge to bring together
it's people and that's the reason for their survival with this party political system.
These political party system pose problems to Ghana because there is the lack of
tradition in the practise of party politics Since it was never part of our traditional
political system we lack the political culture, norms, tradition, experience for the
working of an effective party system. Party in power is usually intolerant to oppostion
groups and will not even listen to any form of constructive criticism. The opposition is
seen as nothing short of an enemy. The opposition group on the other hand resort to
conspirational practices to dislodge the party in power. Such unecessary rivary and
opposition result in instability and freguent changes in government. Parties provide 
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