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Jean Bayart, « Democracy and the Challenge of Tradition in Sub-Saharan Africa », Pouvoirs, ID : 10670/1.497c32...
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In Africa as elsewhere the relationship of democracy and tradition is historical, even more so since the former has been 'invented' and bureaucratized in the colonial context. Both the holders of authoritarian power and democratic entrepreneurs have been able to resort to democracy because it is politically polysemic. But it is above all at the local level that the elections, the process of decentralization, the organizations of civil society and the chiefdoms created by the indirect colonial administration have established a critical relationship with tradition through the social conflicts they trigger, in particular those launched by women and the young.
