Sadly this is the reality of any developing country
The same things (intimidation of voters, even arson and murder) were happening in East Anglia until the late 1800s.
For instance sudbury – today now a relatively quiet and boring town) was viewed as a rotten borough (i.e corrupt and prone to politically related violence
A few hundred years before that people were burned alive in the centre of Ipswich over religious arguments.
As for Africa, when the white minority rule ended many of the whites took all their money with them and reduced investment to a minimum, other than pacts with dictators to re-enslave the people what were already slaves, just that now they had black masters. This essentially reduced their society to the dark ages.
Many similar things happen in other African nations but aren’t talked about because their govts have better commercial relations with London.
The harsh facts are that in any nation without the extra money for what we call civilisation “might is right” and army and physical strength is what matters..
