After carefully assessing the failure by African governments to democratise civil society and detribalise rural power, Mamdani says in the African context, elections are not just about representation, they are also about class and ethnic interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [CONTENTS] Reference

The failure to 'democratise and detribalise power' by mainstream nationalists, as in the case of Kenya since independence, has resulted in politics being about which ethnic group is in control of the state and therefore national resources, and which one is not.    From Wordnik.com.  [CONTENTS] Reference