Africa beyond Liberal Democracy

In Search of Context-Relevant Models of Democracy for the Twenty-First Century

Buch | Softcover

298 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781666913835 (ISBN)

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The contributors to this volume ask whether democracy is universal or culturally bound, how the adoption of Western liberal models of democracy has hindered democratisation in Africa, and how indigenous African political thought can be utilised to design models of democracy suitable for twenty-first-century African countries.

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title

Africa beyond Liberal Democracy: In Search of Context-Relevant Models of Democracy for the Twenty-First Century explores possible future trajectories of democratization on the continent. At the dawn of political independence in the late 1950s and early 1960s, many countries in Africa set out with liberal democratic constitutions. However, these were quickly dismantled by civilian regimes that turned their countries into one-party autocracies, or by military coups that set aside the constitutions altogether. The 1990s saw an attempt at reverting to competitive multi-party politics through the so-called second-generation constitutions, but these are again being dismantled by civilian autocracies and military juntas.
In this collection, edited by Reginald M. J. Oduor, African and Africanist scholars examine the view that what has failed in Africa is liberal democracy rather than democracy as such, because liberal democracy arose in an individualist socio-political Western context that is significantly different from the communalist milieu of African societies.
The contributors, from a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, andbased in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, India, Sweden, and Finland, present a range of perspectives on possible directions for context-relevant models of democracy in the various countries of Africa in the twenty-first century.

Reginald M.J. Oduor is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Nairobi.

1. African Political Ideology and Practice in the Era of Globalisation: Can a Return to African Humanistic Socialism Combat Afro-libertarianism?
Sirkku K. Hellsten
2. Promoting Indigenous Values to Facilitate the Emergence of Suitable Forms of Democracy
Thomas Menamparampil
3. Colonialism and the Challenge of Western-style Democracy in Africa
Dennis Masaka
4. The Snares of Liberal Democracy: Lessons from Electioneering in the Democratic Republic of Congo
David Ngendo-Tshimba
5. Democracy as Falsehood: Seek but Do not Expect to Find
Donna Pido
6. Gender-Sensitive Followership in Africa: The Case of Uganda
Robinah S. Nakabo
7. Co-operative Collegial Democracy: An African Context-relevant Governance Model
Emefiena Ezeani
8. The Traditional Roots of Democratic Verbal Discipline: Insights from the Akan
Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani
9. An Appeal for a Communitarian Model of Democracy
Munamato Chemhuru
10. Elements of an Indigenous African Model of Democracy
Joseph Situma, Kisemei Mutisya and Christine Bul

Erscheinungsdatum	17.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
Co-Autor	Moses Oludare Aderibigbe, Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani, Christine Buluma
Nachwort	REGINALD M.J. ODUOR
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 228 mm
Gewicht	472 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
ISBN-13	9781666913835 / 9781666913835
Zustand	Neuware