Edited by Yiagadeesen Samy, Professor of International Affairs, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Assistant Professor, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

• Contents1 Introduction to The Elgar Companion to Democracy and Development inAfrica 1Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba and Yiagadeesen SamyPART I DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT: THEORY AND EMPIRICS2 The state, politics and democracy in Africa 16Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba3 Economic development in Africa: what role for democracy? 33Yiagadeesen Samy4 Economic development and democracy in Africa: evidence from surveydata 56Carolyn Chisadza5 The discourse on democracy and good governance in Africa: whitherdevelopment? 83Adelaja Odutola Odukoya and Adeolu Oyekan6 Toward cultural democracy: decolonizing African governance beyondliberalism and neoliberalism 99Oluwakemi Damola Adejumo-Ayibiowu7 “I am the government”: party institutionalisation and perceptions ofservice delivery in Africa’s resource economies 118Xichavo Alecia NdlovuPART II DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT: CASE STUDIES8 Lack of ideology among political parties and the governance crisis inNigeria 142Emmanuel Ikechi Onah and Ebenezer Babajide IsholaIshola9 Explaining the decline of women’s political leadership in South Africa 159Dikeledi Mokoena and Jabulisile Shabalala10 Assessing gender dynamics in Nigerian democracy: a comparative study ofwomen’s political participation and representation 174Azeezat Oluwaferanmi Adekanye and Damilola Taiye Agbalajobi11 Democracy and military coups in Africa: institutional challenges and thelegacy of colonialism in Burkina Faso 193Gwinyai Regis Taruvinga12 Democracy and development in the Democratic Republic of Congo 209Decky Kipuka Kabongi13 Foreign assistance and democratic development in Ghana’s extractivesector: the case of the Public Interest Accountability Committee (PIAC) 229Joseph Antwi-Boasiako and Nathan Andrews14 Prospects for democracy and development in the Middle East and NorthAfrica 15 years after the Arab Uprisings 247Jeremy Wildemanand Iyas Abu-Hajiar15 The African Union’s role in promoting democracy and development inAfrica: aspirations, challenges, and prospects 265Denis Dogah

‘This timely collection brings together researchers from a wide range of African countries and beyond to illuminate the complex relationship between democracy and development. By channelling the experiences and ideas of those close to the continent’s realities, it offers fresh insights that will be invaluable to scholars, students, and policymakers alike.’