LUMINA Volume 21 No. 1


A CRITIQUE OF CONSENSUAL DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN KWASI WIREDU'S PHILOSOPHY


by Ademola Kazeem Fayemi

Discourses on democracy and human rights are polemically complex and pervasive in contemporary politicking. Scholarly contributions are sporadically on the increase on the necessity of democracy as a political messiah for many of the seemingly unending socio, economic and political problems facing humanity in the 21st Century. Amidst this trail of thoughts and concerns, is the clamour for recognition and observance of human rights. While the twin issues of democracy and human rights are fundamentally held as universals, the underlying assumption is that both are complimentarily exigent in contemporary political world. Democracy here is understood within the context of majoritarian democracy.



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