Abstract
The discourse of governance on the continent of Africa focuses primarily on achieving and imbibing Western values and ideals. Africans on the other hand are highly invested in their indigenous culture, socially, which leads to ask, what is the relationship between indigenous culture and contemporary governance? This article explores what African Indigenous governing principles look like and how they can be used to create a contemporary political system for governance. In adopting Gyekye’s (2015) view of critical sankofaism, I suggest four principles that are based on African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (A.I.K.S) that can be a starting point for creating a new political system in Ghana. These principles include communal social order, substantive representation, consensus decision making/building, and governance centered on human/local development.
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Indigenous Governance, African Studies, Sankofaism, Ghanaian Politics, African Democracy
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