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The Baobab of Choices #41 — Develop quickly or democratize first?

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What if the modernization of your country required temporarily to sacrifice the voice of your people?

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You're Prime Minister of a Sahelian country in crisis. Roads are impassable, hospitals lack everything, youth flee to Europe. An Asian consortium offers you a 20-year Marshall plan: massive infrastructure, accelerated industrialization, technology transfer. But the condition is clear — absolute political stability, not random alternation, a strong state that stands the course without electoral turbulence. On the other hand, your Western allies urge you to maintain the democratic calendar, with its endless debates, parliamentary blockages and alternations that put each project to zero. Your people want to eat in the morning.

What do you choose?


A — Accept the authoritarian pact: first develop, then democratize.

B — Maintain full democracy, even at the cost of slowness.

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