August 2014

Human right education in sub-Saharan Africa: An overview of some challenges and prospects

  This analysis takes up the issue of human rights education in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that human rights education is necessary for shifting the status of sub- Saharan Africans from subjects—mostly to local and international power relations—to citizens: with rights and responsibilities. The feasibility of this process is analyzed by looking at the challenges to its materialization, mainly...

Author(s): Ikponwosa Ero

August 2014

“Clientele democracy”: Political party funding and candidate selection in Nigeria*

  The upsurge of democracy during the third and fourth waves democratic epochs has led to a “proliferation of alternative conceptual forms…involving democracy ‘with adjectives’” (Collier and Levitsky, 1997:430). Clientele democracy, though similar with neopatrimonial democracy, is distinguished in both concept and substance. At the heart of the development of different democracy...

Author(s): Sulaiman Balarabe Kura