Explanatory Foundations of the Obstruction of Democracy in Post-independence Africa

This article aims to show how the obstruction of democracy in post-independence Africa is the result of a clash between uneven powers: the colonizer and the colonized. The difficulties of democratization in this region are mainly due to the fact that the transition from the pre-colonial state to the post-colonial one was not accompanied by structural and ideological changes capable of establishing a socio-political and economic order appropriate for African societies, which has torn the attempts to implement citizen liberties through democracy. With a qualitative method of analysis, we conclude that the implementation and consolidation of democracy in Africa requires a profound reengineering of sociopolitical and economic structures, constitutions, institutions, electoral laws, political parties, parliaments, governments, and jurisdictional systems.

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