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Title:The Potential Role of Democratic Political Education in the African Context
Author:Salih, M.A. MohamedISNI
Year:1997
Periodical:Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review (ISSN 1027-1775)
Volume:13
Issue:1
Period:January
Pages:17-35
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:Subsaharan Africa
Africa
Subjects:democracy
political education
Education and Oral Traditions
Politics and Government
politics
Abstract:Political education and political literacy can play a formidable role in enhancing the drive towards democratic governance in Africa. Unfortunately most postcolonial States in Africa have developed a hegemonic and intolerant notion of political education based on a narrow State-driven nationbuilding project. It is necessary, therefore, to restructure the role of political education so that it becomes democratic and hence empowers civil society. To do this the education establishment itself has to be liberated from the hegemonic nationbuilding ideology and its position as the guardian of the status quo destroyed. Short of liberating the educational establishment is the creation, outside the educational establishment, of an alternative venue for political education, fully committed to citizen politics. Political education on issues pertaining to the empowerment of civil society, democracy and development should be part of an all-embracing package of structural reforms. Bibliogr., sum.
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