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28 janvier 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.ifra.3290
- isbn: 9789782015150
- eisbn: 9791092312720
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Claude Ake, « The Feasibility of Democracy in Africa », Institut français de recherche en Afrique, ID : 10.4000/books.ifra.3290
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IS democratization feasible in Africa? That is the question that I wish to address. It should not be confused with the question of the possibility of democracy in Africa which, though often asked, does not really arise, because democracy is in principle possible everywhere. The question is not whether democracy can be or even whether it ought to be, but how it "becomes" in the light of the circumstances of a particular historical situation. But what is this thing called democracy whose feasib...