One of the main problems, facing Africa is a lack of a native, comprehensive and uniform political theory that best explains the state of political affairs, as it was then and it is now. It is a humongous vacuum. To some extent, after the year of Africa (1960's) we ascribed to a Western Pool of Political Thought, which is vast, yet again stagnant. A plethora of modern independent state, were philosophically client states. Our economic orientation was either Marxist or Capitalist.
Mzee Nyerere a savvy African thinker, as some call him, was heavily inspired by Western Political Thoughts, he was not an original. From his speeches and political leanings we can learn that, apart from Karl Marx: Enlightenment scholars like Jean Jacques Rousseau, Friedrich Von Savigny, Thomas Aquinas and John Stuart Mills heavily inspired his train of thought. Nyerere had put into motion what Rousseau advocated in his theory of SOCIAL CONTRACT, the GENERAL WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
Threads of Rousseau's influence are scattered all over the place, beginning with the Arusha Declaration, 1977 Constitution all the way to laws endowing the Executive with vast powers to take arbitrary action to secure and protect PUBLIC INTEREST. The interest of the mass, prevails over individual interests of a single person or group.
There're also Mills, Savigny and Aquinas, but I think this dosage is enough for today, to just spice things up.....
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