Dukuzumurenyi

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Why Western-style democracy is not suitable for Africa

By George Ayittey, Special to CNN

August 20, 2010 -- Updated 1022 GMT (1822 HKT)


STORY HIGHLIGHTS

· Majority-vote democracy is not suitable for Africa, says George Ayittey

· Western model has let African leaders advance the economic interests of their ethnic group

· Many traditional African societies take decisions by consensus

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Originally Posted by Dukuzumurenyi

The Negro is the Race Oppressed by All the Imperialists
Lamine Senghor

Lamine Senghor was an early Senegalese nationalist. Born in Kaolack, Senegal in 1889, he served in the French Army between 1915 and 1919 and returned to Paris in 1922. Senghor joined the French Communist Party and ran as a ran as Communist Party candidate in the Paris local elections in 1924. Nonetheless he remained committed to an independent Senegal. In 1927, shortly before his death in Paris he articulated

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Originally Posted by Dukuzumurenyi

DR. AMBAKISYE DUKUZUMURENYI
LECTURER, FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
TUICO
UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA, EAST AFRIKA

AREAS OF RESEARCH & TEACHING:

ECONOMIC/COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, AFRIKANA STUDIES, NATION-BUILDING, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & STATE MANAGEMENT, PUBLIC POLICY DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, EVALUATION, APPLIED SYSTEMS THEORY, AFROCENTRIC EDUCATION, AFRIKAN DIASPORA STUDIES, POLITICAL

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Originally Posted by Dukuzumurenyi

IN ANY AFRIKAN DISCUSSION, THERE MUST BE AGREEMENT ON THE AFRIKAN LANGUAGE IN WHICH THE DISCUSSION WILL BE CONDUCTED. AS THE LANGUAGE IS THE MEDIUM OF EXPRESSION AND THE CARRIER OF CULTURE , THE AFRIKAN LANGUAGE MUST BE CAREFULLY CHOSEN SO THAT THE MINDSET SHAPED BY THE COGNITIVE CULTURE WITHIN THE LANGUAGE WILL BE ONE OF MAAT. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES CAN THE LANGUAGE OF DISCUSSION BE THAT OF THE EUROPEAN, ASIAN OR ARAB OPPRESSOR, FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. FURTHERMORE, THERE MUST BE AGREEMENT ON THE

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Originally Posted by Dukuzumurenyi

ZANU is the Zimbabwe African National Union, the political wing of the Maoist faction of the majority-rule movement in Zimbabwe in the 1970s; the militant wing being ZANLA, the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army. They and ZAPU—the Zimbabwe African People's Union, the Soviet backed faction (with its Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army, ZIPRA)—used song to stir up the masses. "Chimurenga" is shona for "struggle"; these are songs of the struggle.

This LP, recorded in the soldier

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