Author(s)

Coulibaly Yacouba¹, Traore Sanibe Emmanuel²

¹School of Marxism, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China.
²Institute of political Science (I.P.S), Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China.

Africa is a vast continent with such a diverse and complex culture, which requires us to be careful in our language as we discuss and debate about the continent. Thus, the question of democracy in Africa is nowadays a debate that divides very schematically the political scientists. For instance, it is when it comes to the identification of the beginning of democratization in the continent, the description of the level of advancement in the democratic practice or even the nature of democracy that the differences arise. Although one thing remains undisputable: the practice of democracy in Africa suffers from many problems such as, misunderstanding, violence, problem of adaptation, multiple numbers of political party. Africa is a vast continent with such a diverse and complex culture, which requires us to be careful in our language as we discuss and debate about the continent. Thus, the question of democracy in Africa is nowadays a debate that divides very schematically the political scientists. For instance, it is when it comes to the identification of the beginning of democratization in the continent, the description of the level of advancement in the democratic practice or even the nature of democracy that the differences arise. However, one thing remains undisputable: the practice of democracy in Africa suffers from many problems such as, misunderstanding, violence, problem of adaptation, multiple numbers of political party.

Common, Practice, Democracy, Africa

Yacouba, C. and Emmanuel, T. (2017) Common Behavior in the Practice of Democracy in Africa. Open Journal of Political Science, 7, 17-24. doi: 10.4236/ojps.2017.71002.