What does compartmentalization mean? The term is at the heart of the Great Seat Belt Debate. It was coined during the 1967 and 1972 Series 1 and Serie...
Many Africans consider the Western model of political democracy to be extremely narrow and even alien to African cultures. Democracy is not merely the right to vote and seize power, the Rev. Jose Belo Chipenda, General Secretary, All Africa Conferenc e of Churches (AACC) has said.
The other extreme is democracy (Greek for 'power of the people'), in which theoretically every adult can influence group decisions. Such an egalitarian approach is familiar to anthropologists, studying the customs of small tribal groups, but it has been a rarity in more developed societies.