"The country-specific chapters serve to underline the differences between African democracy and liberal democracy, yet some authors are at pains to emphasize th

This book is a study of the issues of democracy and democratization in Africa, with emphasis on the roles of civil society and the state in the democratic trans

It is two decades since the ‘third wave’ of democratization began to roll across sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1990s. This book provides a very timely inv

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of democracy in Africa and explains why the continent's democratic experiments have so often