POLITICAL PARTIES AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA; A FOCUS ON NIGERIA

Peter Ikechukwu Emejuru (PhD), Joseph Adekunle Bamidele (PhD)

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This article tries to exray and attempt to evaluate the viability of present democracy as an indicator of good government in Nigeria and indeed Africa at large. The study showcase how Nigerian political life has been on the way to self-actualization as man realizes himself in history as nature plan for him is unraveled. This work bring is to light the struggle of Africa to attain a stable democracy, qualitative methodology is used in this work for the purpose of this work, the elect theory was adopted as the theoretical framework. At the end of this work, there was a number of  recommendations based on the study findings, which include that there should be a new generation of leaders in Nigeria who would oversee the mantle of leadership in Nigeria.

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