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When Democracy Requires Violence
What happens when elections continue to return to office members of the same family who, in turn, reward a cabal of followers with government positions? How does one of the wealthiest countries in Africa have one of the least democratic political systems? What happens when a novelist and student of literature discovers that the path of words and reform are insufficient to make democracy possible?
Come hear Montclair State Professor Daniel Mengara discuss these issues as he launches his new book Le Gabon en danger – Du devoir de réforme au devoir de violence: Autopsie d’une République monarchique bananisée en état de déliquescene (Gabon in Danger – From the Duty of Reform to the Duty of Violence: Autopsy of a “Bananized” Monarchical Republic in a State of Deliquescence—L’Harmattan, 2019).
A brief presentation (in English) of his book will be followed by discussion with faculty panelists (Alfredo Toro Carnevali, Elizabeth Emery, Lois Oppenheim, Tony Spanakos) and audience members.
Cosponsored by the Departments of Modern Languages and Literatures and Political Science, and The Institute for the Humanities