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Democracy, Good Governance and Development in Africa.
Questions surrounding democracy, governance, and development especially in view of Africa have provoked acrimonious debates in the past few years. It remains a perennial question why some decades after political independence in Africa the continent continues experiencing bad governance, lagging behi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Oxford :
Langaa RPCIG,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; List of Contributors; Contents; Good Governance, Democracy and Sustainable Development in Africa. An Introduction; Introduction; A Guide to the Chapters; Chapter One
- Envisioning African Democracy in the Twenty-First Century: Mwana washe muranda kumwe and the Coloniality of Contrived "Democracy"; Introduction; Democracy and mwana washe muranda kumwe: The paradoxes and inversions in coloniality; The local, the global and Mwana washe muranda kumwe: are visit of some epistemological and ontological aspects; References.
- Chapter Two
- Towards a United States of Africa: Concepts, Issues, and MethodologiesIntroduction; A United States of Africa: An ever-longed idea?; Enlivening the idea of a united Africa; Rising above ethnicity and cultural difference for unity; Conclusion; References; Chapter Three
- African Democracy Vis-A-Vis Western Democracy: Afrikenticating, Follyfying, Expibasketizing, and Reversing the "African Democracy" Debate; Introduction; The folly in "African democracy": Roles of expibasketism and intellectualism; The HISOFE Independence Messages from Pretoria/Bamako-Kigali.
- The real meaning of "Western democracy": The colonizers' club?One-Percent Enslavement of Ninety-Nine Percent; The Maximizing and Walt-Marting of Human Automatons; The Obamacaring Exceptionalsm in America; On Lielisticalism (on/from Africa): The Forest Snake-Mosquito and Other Shitting Narratives; The No-Shitting Theory; The Poisonous-Snake Thesis; The Mosquito Narrative; Conclusion; References; Chapter Four
- Mandela and Coloniality in South Africa; Introduction; Profiling Mandela; 'Saint' Madiba; Sanitised Transformation, Wretched Lives, Shattered Hopes, and the Mandela Legacy.
- Theorising ColonialityProblematising the South African Human rights discourse; Coloniality as structural violence; Coloniality in education; Unemployment and unequal employment opportunities; Inadequate Housing and racial inequalities; Conclusion; References; Chapter Five
- The State and Knowledge of Democracy in West Africa: A Critical Analysis; Introduction; West Africa Democracy and Governance: Theoretical Implications; West Africa: Progress, Challenges and Prospects of Democracy; Case Studies: Democratic Consolidation, Stalemates and Reversals in West Africa; Media in West Africa.
- ConclusionReferences; Chapter Six
- Paradigm Clash, Imperial Methodological Epistemologies and Development in Africa: Observations from rural Zimbabwe and Zambia; Introduction; Paradigm clashes: Research escapades in rural Zambia and Zimbabwe; Contemporary orientalism, imperialism and colonialism; Culture and paradigm; Hegemonic paradigm; Conclusion; References; Chapter Seven
- Exploring Indigenous Religious Tenets for Democratic Sustainability in Contemporary Nigerian Society; Introduction; Indigenous Religious Tenets: An Overview; Tenets of Indigenous Religion.