Remembering democracy: anticolonial evocations and invocations of a disappearing norm
Remembering democracy: anticolonial evocations and invocations of a disappearing norm
This essay is a corrective to disciplinary narratives of the story of democracy. To counter this story, it proposes the vision and imaginaries of democracy enunciated in a particular strand of anticolonial and postcolonial thought in Africa. The essay aims to highlight the precepts, predicates, and norms underlying this anticolonial democratic project which was constructed against a postwar liberal democratic project perceived then to be predicated on an imperial reason.
CITATION: Grovogui, Siba N.. Remembering democracy: anticolonial evocations and invocations of a disappearing norm . : Taylor & Francis , 2015. African Identities, Vol. 13, No. 1, February 2015, pp. 77-91 - Available at: https://library.au.int/remembering-democracy-anticolonial-evocations-and-invocations-disappearing-norm-0