By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong
Cote d’Ivoire’s President, Laurent Gbagbo, is using the country’s Constitutional Council with the backing of the military and some southern ethnic groups and elites, to cling to power. Despite the fact that he was defeated by the opposition candidate, Alassane Ouattara on December 2, Gbagbo seems to carry the African political diseases of tribalism and the Big Man syndrome.
Despite having a PHD in History, the African political diseases have destabilized Gbagbo’s rationality. In Cote d’Ivoire’s politics, these are toxic issues. Gbagbo is from the Bete ethnic group. Ouattara is from the Dioula ethnic group. Gbagbo and his associates from the south see Ouattara and his group from the north as “foreigners” or immigrants.
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