Rethinking
Western Liberal
Democracy
for Africa
The Science of City
Building and Statecraft
Obalufon II was a quintessential statesman who made possible the co-existence of ancient way of life or constitutionalism and a more modern constitutionalism which entailed the syncing or assemblage of the civic form of the city (shared purpose), the political form of the city (the constitution), and the architectural and urban form of the city (the built environment), all towards good government, that is, the classical cultivation of virtue and human excellence, political stability, and economic progress.
It is the profitable and humane coupling or binary complementarity of the profitable aspects of the old (classics, civilization and tradition) and the new (modernity, innovation and ideology) towards assemblage stated above that we call Janus Effects.
It is such Effects that lead first to civic form of the city, and then to the political
