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Title: Democratic illiteracy: A threat to sustainable democracy and peace in Ghana
Authors: Kodah, Mawuloe Koffi
Keywords: Democracy
Governance
Illiteracy
Authoritarianism
Dictatorship
Responsiveness
Issue Date: 2020
Publisher: University of Cape Coast
Abstract: Following the political instabilities that have characterised Ghana few years after independence from British colonialists, many were those who thought multiparty democratic governance was the surest way to good governance and sustainable human development. The paper argues that citizens’ uncooperative attitude in governance issues, and leaders’ unpreparedness to be accountable to the citizenry result from lack of democratic acculturation. The way forward to achieving and ensuring good governance and peace in Ghana therefore is an elaborate and sustained democratic education geared toward making democracy a way of life for Ghanaians. The paper is an empirical study founded on current affairs and democratic politics in Ghana. It combines historical and sociological approaches in the interpretation of textual data and empirical observations in the formulation of its reflections. In so doing, it examines what democracy is not, on one hand, and what it is, on the other. Informed knowledge of these two realities will lead to democratic literacy urgently required for good governance, socio-economic and political development in Ghana
Description: 9p:, ill.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6607
ISSN: 23105496
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