Eyoh, Dickson. “African Perspectives on Democracy and the Dilemmas of Postcolonial Intellectuals.” Africa Today 45, no. 3/4 (1998): 281–306.
This article is a preliminary assessment of the African debate on democracy. A swirl of economic, political, and social difficulties has creates despair, but the difficulties also motivate us to articulate new collective social visions. An insistence on political democratization underpins man) views of a less malign future for African societies. Indeed, the embrace or democracy and debate about its appropriate forms are central to postcolonial African intellectual discourse. A reassessment is needed, however, o0 ideological and analytical approaches to relationships among the organization of state power, nation formation, and economic development. This article explores the premises of the debate in order to determine the extent to which they signal continuities and shifts in key postulates or postcolonial African intellectual thought about the relationship between political organization and development.
