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                                                                         FROM AFRICA OF STATES TO UNITED 
                                                            AFRICA: TOWARDS AFRICANA DEMOCRACY 
                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                    
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                                                                                                 Pelle Darota Danabo 
                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                    
                                                                               B.A., Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia 
                                                                                     M.A., University of Kansas, USA 
                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                    
                                                                            Submitted to the Department of Philosophy and 
                                                                                     Faculty of the Graduate School of the 
                                                                           University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the 
                                                                                 requirement for the degree of Doctorate in 
                                                                                                             Philosophy 
                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                               
                                                        
                                                        
                                                          
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                                                                                                                                    Anthony Genova 
                                                                                                                               
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                                                                                                                                    Richard De George 
                                                                                                                               
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                                                                                                                                     Tom Tuozzo 
                   The Dissertation Committee for Pelle Danabo 
                certifies that this is the approved version of the following 
                dissertation: 
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    From States of Africa to United Africa: Towards 
                         Africana Democracy 
                
                
                
                  
                
                
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                              ABSTRCT  
                           Pelle Darota Danabo 
                       Department of Philosophy, May, 2008  
                           University of Kansas 
               Since Western Liberal Democracy’s philosophical, cultural, and value 
           foundations are radically different from that of Africa and based on post-disciplinary 
           approach and review of the vast literature on theories and philosophies of democracy, 
           the dissertation proposes and argues for Constitutional communitarianism and 
           Africana democracy as alternative and complementary path towards democratization 
           in Africa. When almost all its conditions are lacking in Africa, liberal democracy 
           cannot easily be transferred and rooted nor should it be enforced as a weapon of 
           political conditionality unless the call for democratization is a disguised cry for 
           recolonization. Also, since liberal democracy is Newtonian politics at work with 
           adversarial and inquisitorial opposition running rampant at its core, the future of 
           humanity rests no less in transforming and reforming liberal democracy itself as in 
           democratizing illiberal societies and tyrannical polities 
                
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
               
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                             DEDICATION 
                                 
            To Ato Awol Mamo, Ato Negash Alemu, Fisseha Haile (PhD, Psychology) Samson 
             Mebrhatu (PhD, Psychiatry), and W/o Nigist G/Hiwot for they symbolize what is 
                            possibly humane. 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
               
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