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This Actuvirtual Symposium engages with ‘Africa beyond Liberal Democracy: In Search of Context-Relevant Models of Democracy for the Twenty-First Century’, edited by Reginald M.J. Oduor (Lexington Books 2022). We discuss how African and Africanist scholars from a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and based in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, India, Sweden and Finland, examine the view that what has repeatedly failed in Africa is liberal democracy with its individualist orientation rather than democracy as such. We shall also reflect on possible alternatives to liberal democracy in contemporary African contexts.

Ndumiso Dladla, Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria, South Africa

A. Masolo, Professor, University of Louisville, USA

Reginald M.J. Oduor, Senior Lecturer, University of Nairobi, Kenya

Gail M. Presbey, Professor, University of Detroit Mercy, USA

Fazil Moradi, Convener, Visiting Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, JIAS, University of Johannesburg