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dc.contributor.authorPatrick, Chabal-
dc.contributor.editorJohn Dunnen_US
dc.contributor.editorJ. M. Lonsdale,en_US
dc.contributor.editorA. F. Robertsonen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-12T14:40:25Z-
dc.date.available2018-10-12T14:40:25Z-
dc.date.issued1986-
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-521-31148-9-
dc.identifier.urihttp://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/10106-
dc.descriptionThis 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.en_US
dc.languageenen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCambridgeen_US
dc.subjectReflections on the limits of poweren_US
dc.titlePolitical Domination in Africaen_US
dc.title.alternativeReflections on the limits of poweren_US
dc.typeBooken_US
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