The Unique Case of African Democracy

Africa, African Democracy, Liberal Democracy
Collection: 
UKZN-IKS
Creator: 
Claude Ake
Date: 
April 1993
Language: 
English
Coverage: 
AFRICA
Resource Identifier: 
URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2621592
Resource type: 
Journal article
File Type: 
Document
Extent: 
7
Publisher: 
Oxford University Press
Source: 
The Unique Case of African Democracy

 The unique case of African democracy CLAUDE AKE Claude Ake considers the unique features of African democracy. He explains why its development must stem from the ordinary people of Africa and from their concept of participation. Africa's long neglected democracy movement is now enjoying unprecedented support at home and abroad. But it does so amid considerable confusion about what the movement is and what it portends to be. This confusion is not unrelated to its complex nature. The movement has many components: out of power politicians for whom democratization is less a commitment than a strategy for power; ethnic, national and communal groups who are obliged to wage struggles for democratic incorporation because a manipulative leadership has seized state power in the name of an ethnic or national group; ordinary people who are calling for a second independence having concluded that the politics of the present leadership, far from offering any prospect of relief from underdevelopment, has deepened it immensely; international human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which are only just beginning to perceive the relation between human rights and democracy; international financial institutions, especially the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, for whom democracy provides the political requirements for the operation of market forces; and Western governments who support democracy in Africa as the process through which the universalizing of the Western model of society can take place

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