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Stability in Postcolonial African States (Hardcover)
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Stability in Postcolonial African States (Hardcover)
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This book explores the instability of the African postcolonial
state and demonstrates that such a fundamental crisis can be solved
only through discourses and practices that are designed beyond the
Westphalian model of the modern state and out of the
neo-patrimonialistic system of African governance. The challenge of
instability will not be overcome by rebuilding the African
nation-state undermined by social contradictions and complex
emergencies; rather stability will be achieved by opening a public
space of agonistic democracy that is supported mainly by an
overlapping consensus on justice. The author argues that by reading
critically, the African philosophy of solidarity is contradicted by
structural violence and inequality. The political
instrumentalization of kinship provokes the exclusion of
minorities, the marginalization of masses, and the instability of
the entire society. Governance is reduced to mere conflict
management. The solution of legitimate violence becomes another
version of the problem of institutional incapacity. The author's
contention is people are the ultimate and permanent agents of
stability, and the ground of stability must not be a strong state,
but the politics of reciprocity and union among people that implies
a sense of justice in the power sharing and in the decision making
process.
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