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iaajah-2627	Paul T. Haaga (PhD)	ON THE POSSIBILITIES OF PRACTICING PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA	2022	12	.pdf	application/pdf	4745	243	50	In responding to these questions, this paper examines the tenants of democracy in Nigeria; it outlines the challenges of the democracy practiced in Nigeria and finally suggests participatory democracy which involves change, reorientation, personal responsibility and active participation as the way to meaningful development in Africa. Democracy and Good Governance: the Africa Experience African democracy originated in “chiefless societies”, and democracy reached its highest development where the people actually governed themselves without chiefs, where self-government was a way of life, and “law and order” were taken for granted.	cache/iaajah-2627.pdf	txt/iaajah-2627.txt