Good governance, Elections and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 in Africa

Abstract

The threatening presence of poverty, hunger, illiteracy, conflict, discrimination as well as
climate devastation across the globe calls for serious global concern. In dealing with these
challenges among others, the United Nations Organization evolved in 2015 a blueprint to
achieve a better and more sustainable future for all societies. The achievement of these goals
is dependent on the efforts made by individual countries to tackle the global challenges they
face. The aim of this paper is to show the connectivity between credible elections and good
governance in the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa. As a
speculative research, data for the paper were collected through secondary source of literature
search and document review analysis – a qualitative method used for gathering information.
The paper argues that good governance is an elusive phenomenon in the African political
landscape and is likely to challenge the attainment of the SDG in the continent. The paper
recommends among others the consolidation of Africa’s democracy through the conduct of
credible and true democratic elections through automation.