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Afro-Communitarian Democracy

By: Bernard Matolino

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In going beyond African socialism and consensual democracy’s use of communitarianism, Bernard Matolino demonstrates that there is a mode of understanding communitarianism that need not necessarily be traditionalist. It is from this ever-evolving communitarian notion that an African-rooted form of democracy may arise. Such a democratic theory is one that seeks to prioritize reality and factors that have shaped and continue to shape current experience of life on the African continent. The work advocates a new mode of communitarianism, without the idealism of traditional foundations of kin connections and one which takes the ontological equality of the community and the individual. Such a communitarian outlook will secure the basic requirements of democratization without abdicating its communitarian responsibility. The communitarian democratic theory advocated here takes seriously the particular situation of each individual and yet points out the need to appreciate the inevitability of the connections among the same individuals.

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1498588298

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9781498588294

Consensus as Democracy in Africa

By: Bernard Matolino

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Consensus as Democracy in Africa

By: Bernard Matolino

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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African Books Collective

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192003336X

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9781920033361

Consensus as Democracy in Africa

By: Bernard Matolino

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By: Bernard Matolino

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Afro-Communitarian Democracy

By: Bernard Matolino

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African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions

Celebrating John Samuel Mbiti’s Contribution

By: Chammah J. Kaunda,Julius Gathogo

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African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions

Celebrating John Samuel Mbiti’s Contribution

By: Chammah J. Kaunda,Julius Gathogo

In African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions: Celebrating John Samuel Mbiti’s Contribution, contributorsexplore John Samuel Mbiti’s contributions to African scholarship and demonstrate how he broke through the western glass ceiling of scholarship and made African-informed and African-shaped scholarship a reality. Contributors examine the far-reaching implications of Mbiti’s scholarship, arguing that he shifted the contemporary African Christian landscape and informed global expressions of Christianity. African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions analyzes Mbiti’s scholarship and shows that his theories are malleable and fluid, allowing a new generation of scholars to reinterpret, reconstruct, and further develop his theories. This collection brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines to study John Samuel Mbiti as the father of contemporary African theology and grapple with questions Africans face in the twenty-first century.

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1793630283

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Book's by Bernard Matolino

Afro-Communitarian Democracy

Afro-Communitarian Democracy

Consensus as Democracy in Africa

Consensus as Democracy in Africa

Consensus as Democracy in Africa

Consensus as Democracy in Africa

Afro-Communitarian Democracy

Afro-Communitarian Democracy

African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions

African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions

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