1977
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Jacques Bugnicourt, « Action administrative et communication avec les administrés en Afrique », Revue française d'administration publique (documents), ID : 10.3406/rfap.1977.962
Administrative action in Africa and communication with the governed Government action has destroyed or disrupted many of the traditional channels through which the population made known its needs. At the same time, it has replaced these by a sporadic and often repressive form of communication. There is no longer any contact between the citizen and the administrative machinery. It is as if government services in Africa, instead of reflecting the present-day economic and social conditions in their countries, had become to a large degree the extension of those of the dominating powers. Mr. Bugnicourt is of the opinion that it is only by having those concerned at village and district level elect their local government workers and by providing in-service training to officiais instead of formai education in schools where they learn to copy foreign models, that il will be possible to reconstruct an administrative service capable of communicating with those it is designed to serve and thereby answer the present-day needs of the economics and peoples of Africa.