The power of your vote

By Ekema Emmanuel Likine, Political Sociologist. In a democratic country like Cameroon, a change in leadership be it in presidential, Senatorial, parliamentary and Municipal, is only guaranteed through the ballot box. So many times people complain of bad governance which results to poverty, corruption, injustice and nepotism just to name a few. On the contrary, the same citizens are not willing to change the course of their lives by exercising their civic responsibility. According to Aristotle, a great philosopher, Man is a political animal. The validity of this statement cannot be overemphasized because no matter how people try to observe…