The Gambia's history of indecisiveness

[Crandar]

So, Mr. Jammeh peacefully rules the prosperous land of Gambia for more than 20 years, until the unfortunate year of 2017, as in the previous month, the good president failed to win the fifth election, in the row. Naively, Mr. Jammeh accepted the result, why not? Why would he ignore his people's will, for Christ's sake?
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ga...-idUSKBN13S0KE

Well, it turned out that there was actually an election-fraud, not by the childishly benevolent regime government, but by the evil opposition. So, our dearest of all our presidents (two, in total, Jammeh included) was forced to reject the results. That resulted in terrorist acts committed by the para-militaries of the opposition and dire threats thrown by the imperialist neighbors of Ghana, which have set en eye on its valuable resources.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...h-adama-barrow
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ga...-idUSKBN13Z09D

He's right, his defeat is logically impossible, as he said in 2011, when he took more than 70% of the votes.
"In 17 years, I have delivered more development than the British were able to deliver in 400 years. Do I look like a loser? There is no way I can lose unless you tell me that all Gambian people are mad."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-15897134

Gambia has a problem of naive leadership. Mr. Jammeh's predecessor, the almost equally good President Jawara also announced that in his 70s, he will step down from politics. Then, he changed his mind, because he recognized that Gambia needs a wise ruler to navigate through the seas of unknown, won the elections with 56% of the votes and got toppled in a coup revolution by Mr. Jammeh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawda_Jawara#1994_coup

[Greyblades]

200 years, actually, give or take a decade.

[rory_20_uk]

Often seems the only thing worse than having the colonial powers in charge is having the locals in charge.

[Husar]

Often seems the only thing worse than having the colonial powers in charge is having the locals in charge.

True for every country except Germany of course.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

True for every country except Germany of course.

Are you referencing Germany's "enlightened" handling of its African colonies during the Victorian and Edwardian eras or the mélange of 'colonial' governments in Post WW2 Germany?

[Husar]

Are you referencing Germany's "enlightened" handling of its African colonies during the Victorian and Edwardian eras or the mélange of 'colonial' governments in Post WW2 Germany?

I am referring to two things: Firstly the idea that the locals in countries such as *ahem* Britain and the USA *ahem* recently made terrible decisions according to a very large number of outside, and also inside, observers. With the added bonus that one of these actually was a colony before and the other had/has foreign rulers of sorts. And secondly I was jokingly referring to the last German attempt to make the world its colony.

I would obviously never bring up the idea that colonial rule could be more terrible than a dictatorship because that would mean I hate myself according to certain people, so maybe the second reference wasn't so jokingly after all.