Against Consensual Governance in Africa: A Reply to Barry Hallen

Second Order: An African Journal of Philosophy  2 (1-2):33-51 (2020)
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In this paper, I attempt a critical assessment of Hallen’s case for reconsidering consensual democracy in Africa and argue that it is unconvincing. In furthering the discourse, I argue against a case for consensual democracy by exposing some other salient problematic aspects of Wiredu’s model of consensual governance. Contra Wiredu and Hallen on non-party consensual governance, I make a case for enriching majoritarian democracy through a fusion of some moral-ontological aspects of indigenous political practices for good governance. This eclectic model, I argue, is more appropriate for post-colonial African polity and should rather be taken more seriously in the ongoing conversations on how best to organise the African polis.

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Ubuntu as a Moral Theory and Human Rights in South Africa.Thaddeus Metz - 2011 - African Human Rights Law Journal 11 (2):532-559.
Philosophy and an African culture.Kwasi Wiredu - 1980 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Reconsidering the case for consensual governance in Africa.Barry Hallen - 2019 - Second Order: An African Journal of Philosophy  3 (1):1-22.

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