I don't want to resurrect our recent discussion and critique of the damage and problems of liberal democracy (with its emphasis on competitive, zero-sum, and majoritarian principles) in Africa, but this piece (linked below) by Ayodeji Ogunaike is the type of thoughtful, original, and transcendental critique we're talking about. This is where the debate is headed, decentering and historicizing liberal democracy and unearthing Africa-centered alternatives to it.
-- Perspectives like this reject and go way beyond the farcical and shallow binaries of democracy versus dictatorship, election versus selection, participation versus non-participation, singularity versus pluralism, etc, which do little to get us out of the ontological and programmatic conundrum of a fatally troubled liberal democratic practice in Africa.
The piece is part of our think-piece series being published on Africasacountry.com, with the edited volume to be published thereafter by UVA Press.
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