The disagreement over what was responsible for arriving at consensual positions, in
traditional African polities, is best captured in the classic debate between Kwasi Wiredu and …

Nationalist-ideological philosophy is the fourth trend of Odera Oruka's (1981) four-fold
classification of African philosophy. 1 The trend comprises the pro-independence, anti …

How justified are those who think that the clamour for one-party politics in Africa was
inspired by the character of African consensual democracy such as the one defended by …

Abstract This article examines Kwasi Wiredu's arguments on democracy and consensus. In
Cultural Universals and Particulars, Wiredu presented consensual democracy as a better …

In this chapter, we argue that most attempts at theorising democracy and development in
Africa are limited because they focus on either 'challenging the operationalisation of …

African states are generally inhabited by peoples of diverse historical, linguistic, cultural and
religious backgrounds. This feature of diversity in African states, arguably, poses a …

تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى محاولة التعرف على طبيعة الديمقراطية التوافقية غير الحزبية التي كان يُروج
لها" ويردو" في جُل مؤلفاته الفلسفية من ناحية، ومحاولة التعرف إلى أي مدى يمكن تطبيق الديمقراطية …‎

This paper examines the system of politics and governance in pre-colonial African societies.
It examines how they enabled that era to produce societies that were democratic and that …

Echoing Hobbes' seventeenth century classic liberal scepticism about global justice,
recently articulated for the twenty-first century by Thomas Nagel, the political philosopher …