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From Africa of States to United Africa: Towards Africana Democracy
Danabo, Pelle Darota
Danabo, Pelle Darota
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Since Western Liberal Democracy's philosophical, cultural, and value foundations are radically different from that of Africa and; based on post-disciplinary approach and review of the vast literature on theories and philosophies of democracy, the dissertation proposes and argues for Constitutional communitarianism and Africana democracy as alternative and complementary path towards democratization in Africa. When almost all its conditions are lacking in Africa, liberal democracy cannot easily be transferred and rooted nor should it be enforced as a weapon of political conditionality unless the call for democratization is a disguised cry for recolonization. Also, since liberal democracy is Newtonian politics at work with adversarial and inquisitorial opposition running rampant at its core, the future of humanity rests no less in transforming and reforming liberal democracy itself as in democratizing illiberal societies and tyrannical polities
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2008-08-21
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University of Kansas
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Philosophy, Africana democracy, Community of life, Community society, Communitarianism, Democracy