Élite Formation in Africa: Class, Culture, and Coherence
- 1 December 1974
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Modern African Studies
- Vol. 12 (4), 521-542
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00014245
Abstract
A unified élite means the end of freedom. But when the groups of the élite… become a disunity, it means the end of the state. Freedom survives in [the] intermediate free zones.1Any system that restrains [solidification of the élite] however slightly can only excite awe.2Keywords
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