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Provides strategies that Africans can use to deepen democracy, improve resource allocation, and enhance their ability to coexist peacefully.

Table of Contents

List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgments Acronyms Introduction: Establishing Generalities and Specificities in Africa's Struggle for Democracy and Development by Julius O. Ihonvbere and John Mukum Mbaku Transition to Democratic Governance in Africa: Learning from Past Failures by John Mukum Mbaku Dismantling a Discredited One-Party Regime: Populism and Political Liberalization in Zambia by Julius O. Ihonvbere Problematizing a Transition: The Power Elite, the State and Transition Politics in Cameroon by Nantang Fua Planned and Unplanned Outcomes: Uneven and Unsteady Pathways to Democratization in Nigeria by Victor Adefemi Isumonah The State and the Politics of Democratic Consolidation in Benin, 1990-1999 by Kunle Amuwo The Military and "Democratization" in The Gambia, 1994-2000 by Abdoulaye Saine Unsteady Steps and Uncertain Politics: Political Democratization in Post-Civil War Liberia by George Klay Kieh Jr. Between Dictatorship and Democracy: A Critical Evaluation of Kabila's "Revolution" in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Osita G. Afoaku Overcoming a One-Man Dictatorship: Political Liberalization and Democratization in Malawi by Julius O. Ihonvbere The Contested State of Democracy in South Africa by Roger Southall Eritrea's Aborted Democratization by Kidane Mengisteab Land Reform and Zimbabwe's Troubled Transition to Democratic Governance by Sam Moyo Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

JULIUS OMOZUANVBO IHONVBERE is Professor of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. He has published widely on state-civil society issues and he is the first recipient of the Mario Zamora Memorial Award from the Association of Third World Studies Inc. Currently he is Program Officer for Pluralism and Governance in the Governance and Civil Society Unit of the Ford Foundation. JOHN MUKUM MBAKU is Professor of Economics at Weber State University. He has published extensively in the field of African Studies. He is the Associate Editor (Africa) of the Journal of Third World Studies and President, African Educational Foundation Inc.

Reviews

?[M]akes a solid contribution to the mounting literature on political development in Africa....This collection is useful for those who study the politics of Africa as well as those who study the process of democratization more broadly. Those scholars conducting cross-national research that includes African cases can gain greater understanding of the patterns they see by reading this book. In addition, nearly all of the country chapters provide detailed information about elections that have taken place in particular countries. Those who include numerous country studies in their African politics courses may find that this is a useful book to assign.?-International Journal of African Historical Studies

?Readers in search of a compelling account of Africans politics during the 1990s will find this a demanding and satisfying read. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.?-Choice

"�M�akes a solid contribution to the mounting literature on political development in Africa....This collection is useful for those who study the politics of Africa as well as those who study the process of democratization more broadly. Those scholars conducting cross-national research that includes African cases can gain greater understanding of the patterns they see by reading this book. In addition, nearly all of the country chapters provide detailed information about elections that have taken place in particular countries. Those who include numerous country studies in their African politics courses may find that this is a useful book to assign."-International Journal of African Historical Studies

"Readers in search of a compelling account of Africans politics during the 1990s will find this a demanding and satisfying read. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."-Choice

"[M]akes a solid contribution to the mounting literature on political development in Africa....This collection is useful for those who study the politics of Africa as well as those who study the process of democratization more broadly. Those scholars conducting cross-national research that includes African cases can gain greater understanding of the patterns they see by reading this book. In addition, nearly all of the country chapters provide detailed information about elections that have taken place in particular countries. Those who include numerous country studies in their African politics courses may find that this is a useful book to assign."-International Journal of African Historical Studies