Compatible Cultural Democracy: The Key to Development in Africa

Osabu-Kle, Daniel T.

ISBN 10: 1551112892 / ISBN 13: 9781551112893

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2000

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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 structural transformation. He delves into the makeup of a number of indigenous African political systems: the Ovimbunda, Zulu, Ashanti, and Ga peoples whose cultures, though geographically distant, exhibit common characteristics, including consensualism and a balance between centralization and decentralization to check the abuse of power.

Osabu-Kle argues that only a type of democracy compatible with the historic African cultural environment is capable of achieving the political conditions for successful development. But he goes beyond establishing that precolonial African political systems were democratic. Rather, he describes how the indigenous political culture might be modified to achieve the political conditions necessary to work towards a successful future.

This dynamically written, lively, and informed study provides a provocative challenge to conventional Western commentaries on Africa and current thinking about the continent's "re-democratization."

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Daniel T. Osabu-Kle is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, Carleton University

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Titel: Compatible Cultural Democracy: The Key to ...
Verlag: University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Acceptable