Democracy for breakfast : unveiling mirage democracy in contemporary Africa / Tatah Mentan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mentan, Tatah, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Developing countries--Social conditions.

Women.

Democracy--Africa.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research and Publishing CIG, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Democracy is the faith that the process of experience is more important than any special result attained, so that special results achieved are of ultimate value only as they are used to enrich and order the ongoing process. Africans must therefore be allowed to apply their cultural and historical experiences and talents in working out a pattern of 'government of the people, by the people, and for the people' according to their own understanding and as their own peculiar circumstances demand. Those who do not want the vertical 'Western-Style Democracy' must be given a fair chance to demonstrate an alternative African horizontal democracy. Perhaps what they come up with might be of benefit to politics even in the West, provided that their radical system of horizontal democracy protects the life, liberty and property of citizens, and provided that the people want it. The question of externally imposed or market-driven multi-party or dual-party or non-party is a matter of modality and should not occupy the center stage in Africa.

Contents:

Foreword

Profile of neoliberal ideology

Introduction : context, concepts and substance

At the core of neoliberal ideology

Neoliberalism, state and global governance

A critique of market-driven democracy

The neoliberal state in general

Neoliberalism and thought control in Africa

Thought control : unveiling corporate manipulation : the media

Unveiling neoliberal thought control : education

Future with African democracy

Summary, reprise and typologies

Toward African democracy?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 12, 2013).

ISBN:

9789956791040

9956791040

OCLC:

863204176