Daniel T Osabu-Kle

Compatible Cultural Democracy

The Key to Development in Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that it is time for African nations to govern themselves using modified, indigenous political structures and ideologies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781551112893
• ISBN-10: 1551112892
• Artikelnr.: 53780252

Autorenporträt

Daniel T. Osabu-Kle is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, Carleton University

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction: Variants of Democratic Practice
2. The Great Transplantation
3. The Post-Independence Problem
4. Typical African Political Systems
5. Towards the Modification of African Political Culture
6. Ghana: Tactical Action, Socialism, and the Military
7. Nigeria: Oil, Coups, and Ethnic War
8. Kenya: Settler Ideology and the Struggle for Majimbo
9. Tanzania: Ujamaa Partisan Politics in Ethnic Garb
10. Somalia: Experiments with Democracy, Military Rule, and Socialism
11. Senegal: From French Colonialism to the Failure of Partisan Politics
12. Rwanda: From Success Story to Human Disaster
13. Congo (Kinshasa): "A Most Lethal Poison..."
14. Conclusion: Establishing an African (Jaku) Democracy
Notes
Bibliography
Index