By Mathew K Jallow
The unsurprising avalanche of criticisms and acrimony surrounding the Coalition’s scorecard, isn’t a departure from the norm; it is the new norm. The concept of a 100-days arbitrary deadline is remiss of reality, and ignores the social and political complexities that besmirch all illusions of substantial development achievement, in such short space of time. Put differently, the whimsical 100-days benchmark patently underscores the ridiculousness of our expectations, which seek to relegate the process of governing into some Shakespearian theatrical drama. The transcendent paradigmatic nature of political change, over the past five months, has restored a sense of normalcy in our political system, but spawned a pandemonium of spurious expectations that are more a flight of fancy than realistic. But, as surreal as these expectations seem, they represent the legitimate manifestations of decades of deprivation and yearning for political ..Read the rest here