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Two Days Rethinking Democracy in West Africa in the Face of Discontent and Coups

Posted By: adminon: February 11, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Armed populism', Democracy and Development, ECOWAS, Electoral accountability, France, Grounded theory, INEC, Military Vanguardism, Niger – Mali – Burkina Faso, Robert Cox, RussiaNo CommentsViews:
Two Days Rethinking Democracy in West Africa in the Face of Discontent and Coups

It was a pleasant two-day house (hotel) arrest for the purpose of a collective peer review of a potentially explosive book project on electoral accountability in Nigeria on the one hand and... Read more

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An Absence Of Developmental Politics

Posted By: adminon: June 14, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: "Yes we can", APC, Atiku Abubakar, Bola Tinubu, Claude Ake, Democracy and Development, PDPNo CommentsViews:
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By Ike Okonta It was the late Claude Ake, one of Africa’s foremost political economists, who observed in his book ‘Democracy And Development in Africa’ that Africa remained underdeveloped be... Read more

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