Democracy and Africa – a View from the Village

In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 369-396

Abstract

The fact that this new nation has succeeded in fostering economic growth and democracy under the aegis of equalitarian values holds out hope for the rest of the world. For prosperity, freedom, and equality cannot be for white men only. If they are, then they will prove to have been as illusory and impermanent as the slave-based democracies of ancient Greece.