Democracy from the Horse’s mouth

It was Fela Anikulapo kuti that defined Nigeria’s democracy as demonstration of craze(behaving in a crazy way),

Abraham Lincoln, the former
President of the United State of
America, in his famous Gettysburg
address delivered in November 19,
1863, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
when he said ‘ it is rather for us to
be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us—that from
these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that cause for
which they gave the last full
measure of devotion—that we here
highly resolve that these dead shall
not have died in vain—that this
nation, under God, shall have a new
birth of freedom—and that
government of the people, by the
people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth’. This idea of
his became the most popular
definition of democracy.
The idea of democracy is traced
back to the ancient Greece which
practiced direct democracy in which
‘the whole citizen body formed the
legislature’ because ‘then
representative democracy system
was unknown. For the sake of
clarity, the word ‘democracy’ itself is
the combination of the two Greek
words; ‘demos’ which means
‘people’ and ‘kratein’ meaning
‘rule’. After the fall of the Greek city-
states 2000 years back, that buried
democracy was exhumed by
Abraham Lincoln

It is posited that there are five basic
rudiments without which no country
can claim to be practicing
democracy. These are; equality,
sovereignty of the people, respect
for human life, the rule of law and
liberty of the individual. One of the cardinals of democracy is
free and fair election. This is the
platform through which the citizens
elect those who will represent them.

Extracts from what is ur definition of Democracy.