Episode #61:
Afro-Democracy(3): What’s
Governance got to do with Democracy?
The third in
our series, and the second this year, examining aspects of “Afro-Democracy”, we
want to use this edition of the show to unpack the conversation on governance
within the context of what seems to be democracy with a peculiar type of
African-ness, which manifests itself in variations of a hybrid of ballot-box
democracy and extended term limits.
Although it is
a given that governance should be central to democracy, Africa’s different
forms of popular representation all over the continent already suggest there
should be an increased conversation on governance itself as well.
One definition
of governance is “the processes of interaction and decision-making among…actors
involved in a collective problem that lead to the creation, reinforcement, or
reproduction of social norms and institutions”. If Presidents and Heads of
State are the actors in this definition, then the story is not over as the “collective
problem” still needs to be resolved.
If democracy
alone is unable to resolve this problem that the “actors” (elected Heads of
State) are involved in, surely we must further-unpack what governance means for
Africa?
To help
Emmanuel.K.Bensah demystify governance on the Show will be Marc Amaliya, who
has spent much of his time examining governance and effective policy-making.
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Guiding questions
·
Is there a type of democracy peculiar
and specific to Africa?
·
How central is governance in the
security discussion?
·
Has terrorism overshadowed our
attempts at deepening democracy?
Guest in the studio:
Ø Marc Amaliya, Director
of Research & Programmes, Mutatio Institute; Researcher in African Peace
& Security
