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decade of democracy in Africa.
Title:
decade of democracy in Africa.
Author:
Ndegwa, S.
ISBN:
9789047401049
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (173 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- A Decade of Democracy in Africa -- Civil Society in Africa or African Civil Society? -- Women's Rights Movements as a Measure of African Democracy -- Ideology, Political Education, and South Africa's Transition from Apartheid -- Gender, Development, and Democratization in Africa -- Popular Definitions of Democracy from Uganda, Madagascar, and Florida, U.S.A. -- Information Technology and Democratic Participation in Africa -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
The democratic experiment in Africa has had a chequered history over the 1990s. Authors in this volume argue that African civil society is less likely to support democracy, they measure African democracy by the women's rights movements and unravel the mythical hope of technology.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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