Compatible Cultural Democracy : : The Key to Development in Africa /

Compatible Cultural Democracy : : The Key to Development in Africa / / Daniel T. Osabu-Kle.

This book argues that it is time for African nations to govern themselves using modified, indigenous political structures and ideologies. Osabu-Kle closely examines the colonization experience and the massive transplantation of Western political forms as well as the post-independence period of struc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Osabu-Kle, Daniel T.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • One. Introduction: Variants of Democratic Practice
  • Two. The Great Transplantation
  • Three. The Post-Independence Problem
  • Four. Typical African Political Systems
  • Five. Towards the Modification of African Political Culture
  • Six. Ghana: Tactical Action, Socialism, and the Military
  • Seven. Nigeria: Oil, Coups, and Ethnic War
  • Eight. Kenya: Settler Ideology and the Struggle for Majimbo
  • Nine. Tanzania: Ujamaa, Compulsion, and the Freedom
  • Ten. Somalia: Experiments with Democracy, Military Rule, and Socialism
  • Eleven. Senegal: From French Colonialism to the Failure of Partisan Politics
  • Twelve. Rwanda: From Success Story to Human Disaster
  • Thirteen. Congo (Kinshasa): "A Most Lethal Poison ..."
  • Fourteen. Conclusion: Establishing an African (Jaku) Democracy
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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