African Democracies and African Politics

M. A. Mohamed Salih is Professor of Politics of Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague and the Department of Political Science, University of Leiden. He is the author of Environmental Planning, Policies and Politics in Eastern and Southern Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999), Environmental Politics and Liberation in Contemporary Africa (Springer, 1999), Local Environmental Change and Society in Africa (Springer, 2000), African Democracies and African Politics (Pluto, 2001), African Pastoralism (Pluto, 2001) and African Political Parties (Pluto, 2003).

• PrefaceMaps1. Introduction2. Ethnicity in Quasi-Polyarchies3. Harnessing Authoritarian Development4. The Democratic Potential of Democratic Education5. An Authoritarian Circus: Sudan from NIF to 6. Multi-Party Democracy7. Sierra Leone: Democratising Anarchy8. Nigeria: Democracy, Ethnicity and Faith9. Southern African Democracies and 10. South Africa's Resilience11. Minorities in First-Past-the PostBibliographyIndex

'An eloquent, accessible and above all, ambitious study of democracy across the continent of Africa'