Missives

If every four years you go to the polling station and you put a piece of paper in a ballot box and you are not generating sufficient wealth—and you’re not distributing the wealth that is generated equitably, and people still suffer from poverty, ignorance, and disease, [then] democracy is absolutely meaningless.

- Journalist Kwesi Pratt, on the what democracy means to Ghanaians without material gains for the voters, from Jarreth Merz’s documentary, An African Election. (via africanelection)