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Africa's Rough Road: Problems of Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2017

Absolom Vilakazi
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In studying African development and the problems facing independent Africa, we are constantly reminded by Western scholars, particularly political scientists, that Africa has dissipated its political capital and has turned away from the democratic institutions it inherited from the West towards dictatorship. Such reminders are often made without reference to the history of Western democracy, the implication being that European states behaved better, and that following the French Revolution complete emancipation of the Europeans was achieved.

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African Issues , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , Fall 1974 , pp. 43 - 50
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1974 

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