Matolino: Consensus as Democracy in Africa 1st Edition
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Full Title

Matolino: Consensus as Democracy in Africa 1st Edition
Author(s)

Bernard Matolino
Edition

1st Edition
ISBN

9781920033361, 9781920033316
Publisher

NISC (Pty) Ltd
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Some philosophers on the African continent and beyond are convinced that consensus, as a polity, represents the best chance for Africa to fully democratise. In Consensus as Democracy in Africa, Bernard Matolino challenges the basic assumptions built into consensus as a social and political theory. Central to his challenge to the claimed viability of consensus as a democratic system are three major questions: Is consensus genuinely superior to its majoritarian counterpart? Is consensus itself truly a democratic system? Is consensus sufficiently different from the one-party system? In taking up these issues and others closely associated with them, Matolino shows that consensus as a system of democracy encounters several challenges that make its viability highly doubtful. Matolino then attempts a combination of an understanding of an authentic mode of democracy with African reality to work out what a more desirable polity would be for the continent.

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