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Title: | Single-parties, tribes, totalitarianism and federalism in West Africa |
Author: | Folson, B.D.G. |
Year: | 1966 |
Periodical: | The Economic Bulletin of Ghana |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 22-38 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | West Africa |
Subjects: | one-party systems ethnicity |
Abstract: | For several years now the single-party system in Africa has been the happy hunting ground of writers on modern African politics. Until quite recently their writings were no more than apologies for the single-party system in its African context. Recently, evidence has been accumulating of a shift of opinion; the one-party system is being increasingly subjected to criticism; observers of the African political scene, increasingly no longer assume uncritically that because the practice of one-party politics is widespread in Africa it must be natural to the continent and, indeed, appropriate to it. To date, the strongest assertion, of this view is to be found in Professor Arthur Lewis' Whidden Lectures for 1965 ('Politics in West Africa', 1965) Lewis examines the problem of the single-party system in its West African context. The present author examines critically the ideas forwarded by Professor Lewis. References. |