Journal of
Philosophy and Culture

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS AND PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST
  • Abbreviation: J. Philos. Cult.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 0855-6660
  • DOI: 10.5897/JPC
  • Start Year: 2004
  • Published Articles: 57

Full Length Research Paper

The feasibility of self-reliancism as a foundation for democracy

Usifoh Eric Eromosele
  • Usifoh Eric Eromosele
  • Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
  • Google Scholar


  •  Received: 28 June 2018
  •  Accepted: 29 October 2018
  •  Published: 31 December 2018

References

Abrahamsen R (2000). Disciplining Democracy: Development Discourse and Good Governance in Africa. London: Zed Books.

 

Ake C (1981). A Political Economy of Africa. New York: Longman Inc.

 
 

Ake C (2000). The Feasibility of Democracy in Africa. Dakar: CODESRIA.

 
 

Ake C (2001). Democracy and development in Africa. Brookings institution Press.

 
 

Alford RR, Friendland R (1985). Powers of theory: Capitalism, the state, and democracy. Cambridge University Press.
Crossref

 
 

Aristotle (1962). The Politics. Trans with an introduction by TA Sinclair. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

 
 

Balogun OA (2014). Philosophy in an African Culture: A Light in Darkness. Available at: 

View

 
 

Egbon PC (1995). The Nigerian Economy and Self-reliance: A Critical Analysis: In: Iyoha FE, Chizea BU, Akpotor SA (eds.), Self-reliance, Politics and Administration in Nigeria. Department of Political Science, Edo State University, Ekpoma, Nigeria.

 
 

Etieyibo E (2012). Ontological Presuppositions in Marcus Garvey's and Malcolm X' Philosophies of Black Liberation. In: Okeregbe A, Jegede SB, Ogunkoya D (eds.), A Study in African Socio-Political Philosophy. Lagos: University of Lagos Press.

 
 

Falaiye OA (2012). A Philosopher Interrogates African Polis: How Can We Get It Right. University of Lagos Inaugural Lecture Series. Available at: 

View

 
 

Fotopoulos T (1997). Towards an inclusive democracy: The crisis of the growth economy and the need for a new liberatory project. Bloomsbury Publishing.

 
 

Friedman U (2016). Should the Brexit Vote Have Happened at All?. Available at: 

View

 
 

Ikoku EA (1980). Self-Reliance, Africa's Survival. Fourth Dimention Publishing Company Limited.

 
 

Ireoegbu PE (2010). Active Poverty as Elusive Culture in African Political Environment: Implications for the Vulnerable Population in Nigeria. Journal of Seminary of All Saints, Uhiele, Ekpoma. Unpublished

 
 

Jason B (2016). Are Referenda Like Brexit a Disgrace to Democracy. Available at: 

View

 
 

Klaas B, Dirsus M (2016). The Isolationist Catastrophe of 'Brexit. Los Angeles Times, June 23. Available at: 

View

 
 

Kukah HM (1999). Democracy and Civil Society in Nigeria. Ibadan: Spectrum Books Limited.

 
 

Machiavelli N (1999). The Prince. London: Penguin Books.

 
 

Momoh CS (1991). Philosophy of a New Past and an Old Future. Auchi: African Philosophy Projects Publications. Available at: 

View

 
 

Nyerere JK (1967). Freedom and Socialism. London: Oxford University Press.

 
 

Nyerere JK (1968). Ujamaa-essays on socialism (Vol. 359). Oxford University Press, USA.

 
 

Ogundowole EK (2007). Inexhaustibility of self-reliance. Lagos: University of Lagos.

 
 

Ogundowole EK 1988). Self-reliancism: Philosophy of a new order. Ikeja: John West Publications.

 
 

Okeregbe A (2016). The African predicament and a case for Singer's' Samaritanism': an existentialist interpretation. Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy Culture and Religions 5(2):19-36.

 
 

Okigbo FN (1993). Essays in Public Philosophy of Development. Vol. 4. Enugu: Fourth Dimension Co. Ltd.

 
 

Okolo CB (1993). African Social and Political Philosophy. Selected Essays. Nsukka: Fulladul Publishing Co.

 
 

Olu-Owolabi KA (2011). My People Perish for lack of Philosophy.

 
 

Popper KR (1963). The Open Society and its Enemies. The Spell of Plato. Vol. 1. New York: Harper Torchstone Books.

 
 

Raphael DD (1976). Problems of Political Philosophy. London: Macmillan.

 
 

Shook JR (2009). Comparative political philosophy: categorizing political philosophies using twelve archetypes. Metaphilosophy 40(5):633-655.
Crossref

 
 

Swift A (2006). Political Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide for Students and Politicians. Cambridge: Polity Press. Available at: 

View

 
 

The Catechism of the Catholic Church (2008). Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa. Available at: 

View

 
 

Toyo E (1994). Crisis and Democracy in Nigeria: Comments on the Transition from the Babangida Regime. Department of Economics, University of Calabar.

 
 

Usifoh EE (1999). Representative Democracy? Why Not Benevolent Dictatorship?" In: Falaiye M (ed.) Africa's Political Stability: Ideas, Values and Questions. Panaf Publishers.

 
 

Wojtyla K (1981). Love and Responsibility, trans. H. Willetts (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1981), 41.