Derision, cynicism, prejudice, stereotyping and hunger for stories of failure than of success will be the undoing of democratic progress on the continent.

East Africa is an island of peace and stability surrounded by a neighborhood that is bedeviled with war, upheaval and unrest, … We can only feel secure in our development efforts when the neighborhood is...

But the majority of people chose peace.

Of course there have been some isolated incidents of violence masterminded by the opposition camp,