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Title: | One Partyism in Mauritania |
Author: | Moore, Clement H. |
Year: | 1965 |
Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | October |
Pages: | 409-420 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Mauritania |
Subjects: | one-party systems Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/159551 |
Abstract: | The since 28 November 1960 independent Islamic Republic of Mauritania has a single-party government since the foundation of the Mauritanian People's Party in December 1960. This party is not a militant mass party that 'won' independence, but a heterogeneous association of politicians and tribal leaders. The circumstances of Mauritanian independence were not favourable to the emergence of a cohesive party. Until 1964, President Mokhtar Ould Daddah carefully balanced the regional, tribal and personal demands of the natables while moderating those of the young modernisers within his administration. The new MPP, reflecting the old balance of forces, hardly served as an efficient instrument of national integration. In the present article the author describes how Ould Daddah, since the extraordinary congress held at Kaedi in January 1964, has attempted to transform a politics of equilibrium based upon tribal personalities (Howma Ould Babana, Souleymane Ould Cheikh Sidya, Mohammed Fall Ould Oumeir and their followers) to a politics of nationbuilding based upon a modern party. Notes. |