Domestic impediments to popular participation in the African economic and social recovery and development process

Abstract

The role of government, among ether things, is to prevent one person or group of persons from becoming so powerful that they can impose themselves by force on the nation. And yet, as a general rule in Africa, government has almost invariably been hijacked by one person or committee given the name of "recovery", "redemption" or "salvation" with a view to reassuring the people.