African Democracies and African Politics
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African politics
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Ethiopia
ethnic studies
marinalisation
Nigeria
political persecution
Sierra Leone
Sudan
uneven development
western intervention
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- ISBN 9780745317243
- Weight: 313g
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 20 Aug 2001
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Challenging orthodox views on contemporary African politics and democracy, M.A. Mohamed Salih offers a fresh approach to the topic, emphasising the role of ethnicity and religion, in particular that of minorities. His central theme is that government donors from Western nations have imposed Western style democracy in Africa, ignoring the indigenous politics of the region, often resulting in chaos. As a consequence many African societies are divided by ethnicity.
Revealing how minorities are inevitably marginalised in all aspects of development and education, Salih shows how, in many instances, they are treated as enemies of the state, as are the opposition parties. He examines democracy and authoritarian development in a pan-African context and the democratic potential of political education, and provides a range of country-specific case-studies, including multi-party democracy in Sudan; democratising anarchy in Sierra Leone; religious violence in Obasanjo's Nigeria and ethnic federalism in Ethiopia.
Revealing how minorities are inevitably marginalised in all aspects of development and education, Salih shows how, in many instances, they are treated as enemies of the state, as are the opposition parties. He examines democracy and authoritarian development in a pan-African context and the democratic potential of political education, and provides a range of country-specific case-studies, including multi-party democracy in Sudan; democratising anarchy in Sierra Leone; religious violence in Obasanjo's Nigeria and ethnic federalism in Ethiopia.
M. A. Mohamed Salih is Professor of Politics of Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague and the Department of Political Science, University of Leiden. He is the author of Environmental Planning, Policies and Politics in Eastern and Southern Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999), Environmental Politics and Liberation in Contemporary Africa (Springer, 1999), Local Environmental Change and Society in Africa (Springer, 2000), African Democracies and African Politics (Pluto, 2001), African Pastoralism (Pluto, 2001) and African Political Parties (Pluto, 2003).
