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Where is Uhuru? - Reflections on the Struggle for Democracy (Paperback)
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Where is Uhuru? - Reflections on the Struggle for Democracy (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 2 410
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The neoliberal project promised to correct multiple distortions in
the African postcolonial environment. It pledged to engineer
liberalisation and expand democratic space through competitive
multi-party elections. For a people who had suffered years of
statism, these promises were persuasive. Indeed they accorded this
project a level of legitimacy it otherwise would not have enjoyed.
Several decades down the line, Issa G. Shivji aptly asks Where is
Uhuru? Few people, if any, can testify to the success of the
envisaged reforms. Instead, neoliberalism failed to guarantee a
sustainable basis for freedom, rights, and prosperity. These essays
show that the reform period opened the continent to greater
privation by a more emboldened local political class who, under
pressure from or by acquiescing to foreign imperialist forces,
undermined the struggles for democratic transformation and economic
empowerment. Whether one is examining the rewards of multi-party
politics, the dividends from a new constitutional dispensation, the
processes of land reform, women's rights to property, or the
pan-Africanist project for emancipation, Shivji illustrates how all
these have suffered severe body blows. Shivji not only calls for a
new, Africa-centred line of thinking that is unapologetic of the
continent's right to self-determination, but through these essays
sets out examples of how such thinking should proceed.
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