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UNINA9910787760403321 |
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Mentan Tatah <1948-> |
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Democracy for breakfast : unveiling mirage democracy in contemporary Africa / / Tatah Mentan |
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Mankon, Bamenda : , : Langaa Research and Publishing CIG, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - Developing countries - Social conditions |
Democracy - Africa |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Foreword -- Profile of neoliberal ideology -- Introduction : context, concepts and substance -- At the core of neoliberal ideology -- Neoliberalism, state and global governance -- A critique of market-driven democracy -- The neoliberal state in general -- Neoliberalism and thought control in Africa -- Thought control : unveiling corporate manipulation : the media -- Unveiling neoliberal thought control : education -- Future with African democracy -- Summary, reprise and typologies -- Toward African democracy? |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 'government of the people, by the people, and for the people' according to their own understanding and as their own peculiar circumstances demand. Those who do not want the vertical 'Western-Style Democracy' 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 |
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