Multiconstitutional Democracy for African Countries: an Essay on African Political Philosophy
Cletus Umezinwa
Abstract
The African countries are currently undergoing integration problem. This is because the colonial masters lumped
different ethnic groups together without due consideration of their different and diverse ideologies. As they were
leaving the continent, they left behind constitutions that do not address the multi-ethnic realities of these
countries. And this has made mutual co-existence, peace and development difficult to achieve. To confront this
problem, this paper believes that the African political constitutions ought to be restructured to reflect the multiethnic
nature of the African countries.
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