As a matter of fact people can at least protest in Cameroon, unlike here, which makes Cameroon and Biya better democrats than Nigeria and Tinubu

It is true. The omission indeed occurred to me afterwards

There is nothing wrong with Africa. However, there is everything wrong with people occupying the geographical space called Africa. It is in our DNA to behave the way we do!

Why do African leaders gravitate towards sit-tightism? Simply put; Greed! As the saying goes "every need has a greed to feed". The close cousin to greed is corruption!

Unfortunately, the underlying need driving greedy behavior is often impossible to satisfy with primitive accumulation or power grab. The sit-tight African leader is trapped in a kind of vicious cycle of trying to satisfy an insatiable greed – a bottomless pit. An exercise in futility! He then clings to power at whatever cost in the vain pursuit of a fleeting illusion.

As philosopher Erich Fromm said, "Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction".
Greed breeds the "hungry ghost" effect. Persons with a bottomless pit inside them that material possession can never fill.

The "hungry ghost" keeps demanding to be fed, and this leads the individual to capture all "capturable" including the state and its institutions. Oppositions are whipped into line or forced to "disappear" as the case may be. Democratic institutions are merely symbolic and elections are held as a formality. The "hungry ghost" effect also breeds fear of forceful dispossession of the "feeding trough". Hence, further need to fortify the fortress, and "disappearance" of some stubborn opposition.

The counter argument could be there is greed everywhere, and why does greed have a foothold in Africa? Simple! African leadership is patriarchal where power is centric. The idea of democracy where power is shared is alien to Africa. Hence, Africans build strong men rather than strong institutions. It is not unlikely to have an African leader who has the legislature and judiciary under his command. In places where they have strong institutions rather than strong men sit-tight leaders are a rare possibility.

I agree with you The whole Truth. But you need to add that elections have gotten worse and Inec now announce results in the dead of the night. Cos the cooked figures fear sunlight. We have moved from bad to worse.