Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: Legislation considers men [and women] as he [she] is, in order to turn him [her] to good uses in human society. Out of ferocity, avarice, and ambition, the three vices which run throughout the human race, it cre-ates the military, merchant, and the governing classes, and thus the strength, riches, and wisdom of commonwealths. Out of these three great vices, which would certainly destroy all mankind on the face of the earth, it creates civil happiness. Giambattista Vico, The New Science, 1968 (1744), p. 62. In most of Africa, the state is a contested terrain where different nation-alities, sub-nationalities, ‘ethnic groups ’ and communities go to fight for the appropriation of resources including power. A state which is a contested terrain in this sense can only be an anarchy of self-seeking and a theatre of war. Claude Ake, The Feasibility of Democracy in Africa, 2003, p. 167. Dalkeennii la kala qaybiyee cadowga loo qayday Qaadan waa awoogeen amxaar qurub la siiyaaye Qarqarsiga ka dirir iyo anaa qaabbil kuu taline Maantoo qudhiisii xabaal lagu qarqooreeyey Weli qoonti way taagan tahay quudhsigii shalaye Qaxar iyo dhib nagu soo kordhiyo qolada mooyaane Weli qoodhi kama ay dhammaan qaranka soomaale
Author: Ahmed I. Samatar
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1494911521