Democracy has been described as the “least worst” form of government. The problem with this witticism is that democracy is not a simple analytical category. Systems of government labelled democratic are so disparate that they are irreducible to an archetype. The bigger problem is that democracy is often reduced to one form: liberal democracy as it is practised within the matrices of capitalist economies and bourgeois societies. This form of government that originated in Europe and was exported as an idea to colonies, some of which adopted it after decolonisation.

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