When the ballot stops speaking, what’s left of democracy?
Across Africa, elections are increasingly followed by the same script:fraud allegations, post-election violence, silenced dissent, andleaders who never seem to leave. From Cameroonto Uganda, citizens keep lining up to vote, but many no longer believe their vote changes anything. In this episode of Unter The Baobab, we ask the uncomfortable questions: Are elections becoming an empty ritual? Are international observer missions safeguarding democracy, or helping legitimize broken systems? And if the ballot loses its meaning, can democracy survive at all? This is a raw, unfiltered conversation about power, legitimacy, and whether Africa needs to reclaim elections, or rethink them entirely.