Peer-Reviewed Article January 17, 2023
An outline of the basis for a new Afro-communitarian political theory of democracy
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Published in: Arụmarụka
Publisher: Conversational Society of Philosophy (CSP) • Nigeria • 2788-7928
Abstract
My aim in this paper is to offer an explanation of the orientation I have adopted in my work on African political theory. This explanation is necessitated by some puzzlement that has arisen as a result of the commitment I have sought to pursue. The most prominent complaint has been that I must own up and claim my liberal colours (OYOWE 2015, 514). I have been asked to refrain from making communitarian thought the basis of my political thinking as my commitment to communitarianism is not as thoroughgoing as it should (OYOWE 2015, 514). It is important that I explain this accusation away.