Democracy for Breakfast
1st Edition
Published on 14. October 2013
376 pages
978-9956-791-04-0 (ISBN)
Description
Democracy is the faith that the process of experience is more important than any special result attained, so that special results achieved are of ultimate value only as they are used to enrich and order the ongoing process. Africans must therefore be allowed to apply their cultural and historical experiences and talents in working out a pattern of egovernment of the people, by the people, and for the peoplei according to their own understanding and as their own peculiar circumstances demand. Those who do not want the vertical eWestern-Style Democracyi must be given a fair chance to demonstrate an alternative African horizontal democracy. Perhaps what they come up with might be of benefit to politics even in the West, provided that their radical system of horizontal democracy protects the life, liberty and property of citizens, and provided that the people want it. The question of externally imposed or market-driven multi-party or dual-party or non-party is a matter of modality and should not occupy the center stage in Africa.
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Content
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I: Profile of Neoliberal Ideology
- Chapter 1 - Introduction: Context, Concepts and Substance
- Chapter 2 - At The Core of Neoliberal Ideology
- Part II: Neoliberalism, State And Global Governance
- Chapter 3 - A Critique of Market-Driven Democracy
- Chapter 4 - State in Africa under Neo-liberalism
- Part III: Neoliberalism and Thought Control in Africa
- Chapter 5 - Thought Control: Unveiling Corporate Media Manipulation
- Chapter 6 - Unveiling Neoliberal Thought Control: Education
- Part IV: Future with African Democracy
- Chapter 7 - Summary, Reprise and Typologies
- Chapter 8 - Toward an African Democracy?
- Back cover
