POWER AND DEMOCRACY IN THE SUDAN
How Decentralization Hurts
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What the reader may want to know is that it is the author’s view that no one is qualified to convert an innocent political concept like tribalism into a derogatory term, simply to get away with an idea. Communism did deride nationalism in a similar manner that they deride tribalism, only to end up creating the arms race as a threat of force for realizing a Global Nation, run by a union of workers. Similarly, radical Muslims think, by resorting to terrorism, the world will be so scared that they will on day settle to realize a Nation of Islam. What I want those Southern Sudanese politicians to appreciate is that nationalism can survive the test of time because it respects diversity. When Tony Blair decided to devolve powers to
Democracy is the political art of balancing power that may be shared in society. The idea that after certain periods of time, the ruler and his associates must simply come forward to the public for a renewal of their term of office does not, in itself, constitute democracy. While the blanket definition that democracy is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people may stand, we will shatter that definition to pieces if we maintain that entities like tribes do not qualify as people.
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The Title and Sub-Title of the book are, themselves the briefest of “teaser” synopsis. DEMOCRACY AND POWER IN THE
The book goes on to state how most African politicians have wrongly conceived the idea of nationalism, hence, creating a misunderstanding around tribal sentiments they call “tribalism”. Tribalism is, in fact, a portion of nationalism at the tribal level. Such sentiments deserve their place in any democracy, rather than to be smeared.
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