The National Conference as a Model for Democratic Transition
Author : Wuyi Omitoogun
Publisher : African Bookbuilders
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 12,82 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Managing Conflicts in Africa's Democratic Transitions
Author : Akanmu Gafari Adebayo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0739172638
Book Description
This book explores the nascent and complex terrain of democratization and peaceful political transitions in Africa. It analyzes major election-related conflicts across the continent, explains their root causes and major consequences, and offers measures that may be undertaken to prevent, manage, and resolve election-induced conflicts. It charts a path for the future political and democratic stability in Africa.
Encyclopedia of African History 3-Volume Set
Author : Kevin Shillington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1135456690
Book Description
Covering the entire continent from Morocco, Libya, and Egypt in the north to the Cape of Good Hope in the south, and the surrounding islands from Cape Verde in the west to Madagascar, Mauritius, and Seychelles in the east, the Encyclopedia of African History is a new A-Z reference resource on the history of the entire African continent. With entries ranging from the earliest evolution of human beings in Africa to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this comprehensive three volume Encyclopedia is the first reference of this scale and scope. Also includes 99 maps.
Encyclopedia of African History
Author : Kevin Shillington
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1579582451
Book Description
Offers more than one thousand entries covering all aspects of African history, civilization, and culture.
Nigeria During the Abacha Years
Author : 'Kunle Amuwo
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release :
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ISBN :
Book Description
The autocratic regime of Sani Abacha (1993-1998) stands out as a watershed in the history of independent Nigeria. Nigeria's darkest years since the civil war resulted from his unrestrained personal rule; very close to the features associated with warlordism. Nepotism, corruption, violation of human rights, procrastination over the implementation of a democratic transition, and the exploitation of ethnic, cultural or religious identities, also resulted in the accumulation of harshly repressed frustrations. In this book, some distinguished scholars, journalists and civil society activists examine this process of democratic recession, and its institutional, sociological, federal and international ramifications. Most of the contributions were originally presented at a seminar organized by the Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire (CEAN) in Bordeaux.
Democratization in Africa
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 1992-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309047978
Book Description
The global movement toward democracy, spurred in part by the ending of the cold war, has created opportunities for democratization not only in Europe and the former Soviet Union, but also in Africa. This book is based on workshops held in Benin, Ethiopia, and Namibia to better understand the dynamics of contemporary democratic movements in Africa. Key issues in the democratization process range from its institutional and political requirements to specific problems such as ethnic conflict, corruption, and role of donors in promoting democracy. By focusing on the opinion and views of African intellectuals, academics, writers, and political activists and observers, the book provides a unique perspective regarding the dynamics and problems of democratization in Africa.
The Legacies of Transition Governments in Africa
Author : J. Seely
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,98 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230613904
Book Description
The revolutionary political upheavals in Africa in the early 1990s continue to have an impact almost two decades later. This book argues we must look to the defining period of transition to understand how politics in these countries changed since the fall of dictatorial one-party states.
Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy
Author : Rita Kiki Edozie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761841415
Book Description
Since the 1990s, trends in African politics require the realization that the public policy practice and the theoretical analysis of 'democracy and democratization' are becoming increasingly important tenets for understanding the contemporary political science of the region. Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy explains these new political processes and ideas. Author Rita Kiki Edozie identifies factors that Africans have encountered since the foundation of the modern African state and presents a critical analysis of African politics through the lenses of post-colonial discourse by uniquely employing the ideas of democratic theory to guide an analysis of the Continent's democratic development and performance. Edozie presents an intra-regional comparative analysis of democratic politics in Africa in ways that few books on the same subject do for the continent. Her methodology for examining democracy in Africa reveals the dynamism of several country cases and several more regime experiences with democracy encountered from the post-World War II period to the current post-Cold War period.
Democratic Experiments in Africa
Author : Michael Bratton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 1997-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521556125
Book Description
Appendix: The Data Set.
The Fate of Africa's Democratic Experiments
Author : Leonardo A. VillalÃ3n
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780253003119
Book Description
Does Western-style democracy make sense in the various geographic, economic, and social settings of the continent? How far toward democracy have recent liberalization movements gone? In The Fate of Africa's Democratic Experiments, Leonardo A. VillalÃ3n, Peter VonDoepp, and an international group of contributors consider the aftermath, success, failure, and future of the wave of democracy that swept Africa in the early 1990s. In some countries, democratic movements flourished, while in others, democratic success was more circumscribed. This detailed analysis of key political events in countries at the forefront of democratic change -- Benin, Central African Republic, Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, and Zambia -- provides for broadly representative continental and linguistic coverage of directions and prospects for Africa's democracies. The contributors are Michael Chege, John F. Clark, Joshua B. Forrest, Abdourahmane Idrissa, Bruce Magnusson, Carrie Manning, Richard R. Marcus, Andreas Mehler, David J. Simon, Leonardo A. VillalÃ3n, and Peter VonDoepp.
