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Domesticating Democracy: Culture, Civil Society, and Constitutionalism in Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1997

MAXWELL OWUSU
Affiliation:
The University of Michigan

Abstract

ONE DEMOCRACY, MANY CULTURES?

This discussion is intended to convey a way of studying, thinking and writing about socio-political transformation in Africa that avoids the pitfalls of hasty and sweeping generalization and contributes to a more balanced understanding and informed appreciation of the complex process of liberalization and democratization in Africa in the late twentieth century. This assumes an urgent need for systematic documentation based on empirical investigation involving extended field work.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1997 Society for Comparative Study of Society and History

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