Cooperative Collegial Democracy for Africa and Multi-ethnic Societies

Emefiena Ezeani is an educationist, researcher, writer and political analyst. He has a keen interest in African affairs, international relations, social justice and biodiversity, and devotes much time to the cause of promoting endangered languages. For him, politics, education and religion are the three primary factors that shape any society, a conviction that led him to do his two doctoral degrees in the fields of education and political science. His other and most recent works are A Philosophy of Education for African Nations and In Biafra Africa Died.

Contents: What is Democracy? - Centripetalism: A Competitive Model of Democracy - Consociationalism: A Quasi-Cooperative Model of Democracy - Democracy in Pre-colonial and Post-colonial Africa - Ethnicity, Religion, the Judiciary and Liberal Democracy in a Multi-ethnic Society - Godfatherism, Privatisation of the State and Diminution of Political Space - Giovanni Sartori: Political Parties, Party-less State and Competitive Democracy - The Unanswered National Questions and the Party Model of Democracy - The Party System and Some Specific Issues - Voting Under the Veil of Ignorance and the Belief in the People's Power - Cooperative Collegial Democracy: A Workable Model for Africa and Multi-ethnic Societies - Epilogue - Corruption and Democracy: Learning from the Nigerian Experience.

«[...] the ideas of this author are original, thought-provoking, and have great merit. He has written a thoroughly lucid and well-argued case for democracy, and I can only admire and support this superbly written and well-researched book. I find it so refreshing that the author has argued such radical and new ideas for democracy based on solid research, and can whole-heartedly recommend this to everybody who is interested in a fair world, where the aspirations of all citizens are taken into account.» (Dr Michael Gould, SOAS, London)

«[…] the ideas of this author are original, thought-provoking, and have great merit. He has written a thoroughly lucid and well-argued case for democracy, and I can only admire and support this superbly written and well-researched book. I find it so refreshing that the author has argued such radical and new ideas for democracy based on solid research, and can whole-heartedly recommend this to everybody who is interested in a fair world, where the aspirations of all citizens are taken into account.» (Dr Michael Gould, SOAS, London)