To varying degrees Nigeria, South Africa and Brazil are large population countries with heterogeneous cultures, with divisions along political, class or language/ethnic lines. In such countries the governance structure should be autonomous along the lines of division in order to ensure accountability. For instance, if the ANC were an autonomous country onto itself it would not acquit Zuma; however, within the context of a heterogeneous South Africa the political/ethnic divisions between the ANC and other parties weakened the political system’s accountability mechanisms.

The moral of this is that, if we wish for accountable governments, we should ensure governance autonomy along the strong cleavages of language or ethnic lines within heterogeneous societies. Within these autonomous linguistic cleavages or nations there would naturally arise class divisions but these aren’t as strong as linguistic divisions as acquisition of wealth can help citizens easily migrate and assimilate from the poor to the affluent section of town.

Evidence abound regarding the observations herein.