Dismantling the Leviathan: Constitutionalism, Civil Society and the New Politics in Africa. Being Text of Lecture at the New Hampshire International Seminar Series, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, April 3, 2002. The views expressed in this lecture are strictly those of the author. Let me state from the outset that the most critical […]
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Most (transitions in Africa) have turned out to be false starts; the democratization has often been shallow…But the pressures for democratization are so strong that for most of Africa it is no longer a question of whether there will be a democratic transition but when. – Claude Ake The current wave of political liberalization in
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There is a growing consensus that despite the emerging sites of hope on the African political landscape, the region still faces daunting obstacles to growth, development and peace. Contemporary discourses on Africa, even where optimistic, reveal a certain doubt as to the continent’s future. Statistical indicators of progress are hardly reflective of the conditions of
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Paper prepared for the symposium on “Towards Conflict Resolution in the Horn of Africa,” organized by the African Studies Program, Central Connecticut State university, New Britain, Connecticut, November 19, 1994. The clan system that is embedded in Somali culture is not in itself responsible for the destruction of Somalia: the deliberate policy of exacerbating clan
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Text of keynote lecture delivered at the conference on constitutionalism in Southern Africa organized by the Southern Africa Research Institute for Policy Studies (SARIPS), Sheraton Hotel, Harare, Zimbabwe, July 24-27, 2000. It is indeed an honor to be asked to deliver this keynote lecture at this very important conference on constitution making and constitutionalism in
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