Title:	Political Domination in Africa
Other Titles:	Reflections on the limits of power
Authors:	Patrick, Chabal John Dunn J. M. Lonsdale, A. F. Robertson
Keywords:	Reflections on the limits of power
Issue Date:	1986
Publisher:	Cambridge
Description:	This book opens with Richard Sklar's Presidential Address to the TwentySixth Meeting of the American African Studies Association.1 'Democracy in Africa' was, quite appropriately, a challenge to Africanists. The argument, and it is a powerful one after so many years of political decay and economic failure in Africa, is a defence of democracy. Sklar concludes that there is no convincing defence of what he calls 'developmental dictatorship' and no convincing demonstration of the incompatibility of democracy and development. Though 'the imperatives of development are far more demanding than the claims of democracy', Sklar tells us, the record so far does not suggest that the absence of democracy has served Africa particularly well economically, nor does it provide moral or practical grounds for thinking that Africans would not prefer to live in democracies if they were given the choice.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/10106
ISBN:	978-0-521-31148-9
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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