The third wave of democracy that reached African shores at the end of the Cold War brought with it a dramatic decline from 1990 onwards in dictatorships, milita

This collection of essays assesses the efforts of African governments to constitutionalise decentralisation, be it in the form of federalism, local government o

What is the state of governance in sub-Saharan Africa? Is it possible to identify the best practices and approaches to establishing political systems that promo

First published in 1999, the essays in this book examine the context and conduct of a series of watershed elections held in Anglophone Africa in the first half

The issues addressed in this rewarding book provide new insight into the way we conceive, reflect and study the problems of political transformation and constit