The Scots
have voted 55 per cent to 45 per cent to reject restoration-of-independence in
their Thursday 18 September 2014 referendum. The Scots must be commended for
voting democratically to decide their
future in the outcome they have chosen. Thankfully, this process of democratic
participation and affirmation on the crucial question of a people to exercise
their right to decide for freedom is not restricted to Scottish history and
geography but is indeed universal (http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/rights-for-scots-rights-for-igbo.html).
Many across the world have rightly acknowledged that this recent Scottish process is a turning point. The genie is out of the bottle. Many more of these freedom referendums will surely follow across the globe, but especially inAfrica . Even if a
people ends up saying “No” to restoration-of-independence, as the Scots have demonstrated, they
would have had the right, inalienable, to make that decision – themselves.
Many across the world have rightly acknowledged that this recent Scottish process is a turning point. The genie is out of the bottle. Many more of these freedom referendums will surely follow across the globe, but especially in
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