And now there's barely 9 and 1 good one, and that good one is in the Indian Ocean. And some of those 9 are fairly dubious, it only measures democracy and nothing to do with how backwards politically some of those countries are. Better than nothing though, plenty of hybrid systems but again the range of those is from pretty close to a flawed democracy to completely fucked up. By some standards, Zimbabwe is not far off a failed state for example.
Gona take a loooong time but the first steps are the hardest, and seems that those either are happening or have happened.
Forward to where?
Farther away from Western Social Imperalism. Atleast accoarding Uganda's President.
During the bill signing, Museveni had said homosexuality was emblematic of the West's "social imperialism" in Africa. Powerful Christian groups with links to U.S. evangelical groups have labelled homosexuality an imported Western social evil.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...Name=worldNews