The dominant issues in African Political Thought from the 1960s onward have been “development” and “socialism.” In the present decade new issues have arisen such as democracy, civil society, the nation-state, and the relevance of “traditional” political institutions. Typically, however, these new issues have been discussed in models of thought, which already served in the 1960s or even before. This course aims to providing the necessary insight into the history of African political thought as well as an analytical framework to clarify contemporary African discourses on democracy.
