This paper argues that there is a general absence of democratic theory in African political scholarship in terms of providing the underlying principles, meaning, canons and criteria of democracy in African culture. The paper exposes the conceptual errors implicit in the conflation of democracy as a concept and as practiced in different political systems. Consequently, it contends that an eclect...

To understand the transformation of canons and struggle with them, we may productively explore fanfiction, a particular reader's, viewer's, author's practice, within non-professional non-commercial texts based on plots heroes other people's works. Fanfiction is paradoxical phenomenon: it wholly specific canon — collectively selected film literary texts, moves by worship, emotional attachment, a...