The hegelian State and The Risk of The Tyranny of the Minority: The African Political Experiment
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Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, Pennsylvania
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Most post-colonial African states have evolved a uniform pattern of behavior that is injurious to the people. The state and its
institutions of governance have outgrown the people such that the concept of ‘state’ carries an unquestionable patrimonial
outlook without recourse to the ideals of sustainable development.
The most obvious pattern of the African post-colonial states revolves around Hegel’s theory of state as the ultimate
objectification, or self-projection of the Absolute Spirit in which the drivers of government policies are superior to the
people. We shall investigate and outline the consequences and the remedy to this Hegelian foundation of African states and
emphasize the necessity for sustainable development to become the goal of those in the position of power in Africa. The
remedy is located in the reconstruction of the concept of state in Africa with the purpose of producing a state that integrates
the people into its policies and pursues development ideology that is people-oriented. We shall place the responsibility of
service and respect for the voices of the demos (the people) on the political leaders and their bureaucratic counterparts and
recommends the provision of a viable socio-eco-political platform for the realization of the holistic development in Africa
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JA Political science (General)