Democratic Renewal in Africa

Raufu Musptaha, St. Anthony's College, Oxford, UKTukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, Cornell University, USAAndre Mangu, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South AfricaBolaji Kehinde, University of Ibadan, NigeriaKibet Ngetich, Egerton University, Kenya

• 1. Democratic Renewal in Africa: Trends and Lessons Learned; Said Adejumobi 2. Assessing Trends in African Democratization: Methods and Challenges; Abdul Raufu Mustapha 3. Beyond Authoritarianism: Elections and the Changing Dynamics of State- Society Relations in Africa; Said Adejumobi 4. The Origin of African Constitutions, Elusive Constitutionalism and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy; Tukumbi Lumumba Kasongo 5. Africa's Long Road to Constitutionalism and Democracy: Two Decades on; Andre Mangu 6. Towards a People Driven Constitution: Opportunities, Constraints and Challenges of the Kenyan Experience; Kibet A. Ngetich 7. The Political Economy of Corruption in Africa: A Theoretical Discourse; Said Adejumobi 8. Regional Organizations and Democratization in Africa: The ECOWAS Experience; Kehinde A. Bolaji

"This is a landmark study of the conception, application, and outcome of democratization in Africa since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The eight essays edited and summarized by Said Adejumobi provide a compulsory reading for all students of current African affairs, giving a critical evaluation of the problems democracy faces in Africa during the present conjuncture, and the questions worth raising to understand it better." - P. Anyang' Nyong'o, former Secretary General of the African Association of Political Science (AAPS), former Minister of Economic Planing and also Health Services in Kenya, and former Secretary General of the ODM Party in Kenya