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The article presents abstracts for different articles published in the vol. 51 of the periodical "Diogenes." The first abstract is for Dismas A. Masolo's article "Reason and Culture: Debating the Foundations of Morals in Pluraist World." Ngugi wa Thionǵo and Eunice Njeri Sahle's "Hegel in African Literature: Achebe's Answer," focuses on African literature. Jean-Godefroy Bidima's "Rationalities and Legal Processes in Africa," focuses on legal system in Africa. Other article are also on various issues pertaining to the Social Science.

With the disenchantment with independence in Africa, economic failure, the crimes of the elites from the independence years, the paralysis of symbolism, and finally the states' loss of dynamism, the 1990s ushered in a so-called phase of democratization. This was about rethinking citizenship and the relationship to politics. This democratization was a response to the notion of diversity. This paper claims that the answer to this diversity issue fell far short of expectations and proceeds different examples taken from social, cultural and political life, including the struggle for recognition and the appearance of terrorist violence in sub-Saharan Africa. Multiparty systems designed to respond to the diversity question produced only many versions of the same by ignoring that true diversity is the encroachment on the same of the strange, the different and the unexpected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]