Where is uhuru? : reflections on the struggle for democracy in Africa /
Issa G. Shivji, edited by Godwin R Murungu
- Cape Town : Pambazuka Press, 2009.
- vi, 246p. ; 23cm.
Includes bibliography and index
The neoliberal project, led by the IMF and World Bank, promised to correct many of the distortions in the African postcolonial environment and pledged to engineer liberalization and expand democratic space through competitive multiparty elections. Decades later, few people, if any, can testify to the success of the envisaged reforms. Instead, neoliberalism failed to guarantee a sustainable basis for freedom, rights and prosperity.
978-1-906387-46-4
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