Lumumba-Kasongo examines those forces that contributed to the
fate of multiparty democracy in Africa. The forces include the
state, political parties, ethnicity, nationalism, religion,
underdevelopment, and the global market.
Multipartyism in Africa is not necessarily democratic. However,
the processes toward multipartyism can produce democratic
discourses if they can be transformed by popular and social
movements. As the author points out, almost all social classes have
demanded some form of democracy. Yet the sociological meanings and
teleological perspectives of those forms of democracy depend on an
individual or group's economic and educational status. The dynamics
of the global context, as reflected in the adoption of the
structural adjustment programs of the World Bank and the stability
programs of the International Monetary Fund, are likely to produce
non-democratic conditions in Africa. Lumumba-Kasongo challenges the
existing paradigms on democracy and development, so the book is of
considerable interest to scholars and policy makers involved with
African politics and socio-economic development.
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