Author: Emmanuel Ufuoma Tonukari
Istitutional affiliation: Delta State University
Country: Nigeria

Title: Universal Democracy, Global Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalization: The Role of the United Nations and the Mass Media in Africa

Abstract:

The eventual triumph of capitalism over socialism has highlighted the great prospects of world capitalism, which seeks a global flow, control and sustainability of the factors of production, wealth creation and regeneration. As globalization pursues a world of holistic transnational economic and socio-political co-operation, it becomes expedient to consummate globalization with the enthronement of universal democracy and the bestowal of global citizenship on desiring and deserving members of humanity. Consequently, universal democracy has become one of the prime pursuits of the United Nations. Therefore, a global government is incomplete and illogical without global citizenship. Thus a global government without global citizens lacks all political sympathies and foundation. Global citizenship will therefore consummate the ideology and process of globalization as barriers to trans-border mobility are dismantled and the rights of global citizens become universalized as human rights without the colorations of national/ethnic identities and patriotism. Thus the human race will exist as one-world-one-people and this socio-ethereal stead of globalized harmonious human will become an effective panacea to efface the blight of war between nations. Thus, the United Nations and the mass media have inordinate roles to play in the attainment of the social developmental landmarks. This paper therefore will explore the depths, scope and challenges of these socio-economic and political institutions with a particular focus on the African context. It will suggest proficient ways to achieve the universalization of democracy and citizenship as extension of the ideology and process of globalization.

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